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
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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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. more…

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