Analysis of God's World
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Thin as hair are the shadows of sunset
When they follow drawn-out every tree.
On the road through the forest the post-girl
Hands a parcel and letters to me.
By the trail of the cats and the foxes,
By the foxes' and by the cats' trail,
I return with a bundle of letters
To the house where my joy will prevail.
Countries, continents, isthmuses, frontiers,
Lakes and mountains, discussions and news,
Children, grown-ups, old folk, adolescents,
Appreciations, reports and reviews.
0 respected and masculine letters!
All of you, none excepted, have brought
A display of intelligent logic
Underneath a dry statement of thought.
Precious, treasured epistles of women!
Why, I also fell down from a cloud.
And eternally now and for ever
To be yours I have solemnly vowed.
Well and you, stamp-collectors, if even
Only one fleeting moment you had
Among us, what a marvellous present
You would find in my sorrowful stead!
Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDXD CEXE XFXF XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11110111 1110111001 1011010011 101001011 1011010010 101001011 1011010110 101111101 10100101 101001001 101111010 101001 010010010 111101011 0011010010 01011011 10101110 111011101 0010010110 111111001 1011010110 101101011 01110110 111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 894 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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