Analysis of Here will be echoes in the mountains...
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Here will be echoes in the mountains,
The distant landslides' rumbling boom,
The rocks, the dwellings in the village,
The sorry little inn, the gloom
Of something black beyond the Terek,
Clouds moving heavily. Up there
The day was breaking very slowly;
It dawned, but light was nowhere near.
One sensed the heaviness of darkness
For miles ahead around Kazbek
Wound on the heights: though some were trying
To throw the halter from their neck.
As if cemented in an oven,
In the strange substance of a dream,
A pot of poisoned food, the region
Of Daghestan there slowly steamed.
Its towering peaks towards us rolling,
All black from top to foot, it strained
To meet our car, if not with clashing
Of daggers, then with pouring rain.
The mountains were preparing trouble.
The handsome giants, fierce and black,
Each one more evil than the other
Were closing down upon our track.
Scheme | XAXA BXXX XBBB CXCX BXBX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 111100010 01011001 010100010 01010101 11010101 11010011 011101010 1111111 1101110 1101011 110111010 11010111 110100110 00110101 011101010 111101 1100101110 11111111 1110111110 11011101 010001010 01010101 111101010 010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 858 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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