Analysis of Here—now—our age of socialism!...
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Here—now—our age of socialism!
Here in the thick of life below.
Today in the name of things to be
Into the future forth we go.
Like Georgia shining in her beauty,
Like a land of light by open seas,
It beckons-veiled within a mist
Of wild surmise and theories.
There mothers of Putivl no more
Lament like cuckoos their dismay;
There joy no longer looks askance
In fear, but walks abroad by day.
There life and happiness converse
Together, free from hate and strife,
All joined to give their saving strength
And stay to every child and wife.
There men no longer by exchange
Compute the things they have or owe,
But gladly spend themselves in giving-
The all they have, the all they know.
Then let my message overtake
This wondrous age in history:
O may my children in their gladness
Out of the future answer me!
Scheme | XABA BCXC XDXD XEXE XAXA XBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111011100 10011101 010011111 01010111 110100010 101111101 11010101 1101010 1101111 01110101 11110101 01110111 11010010 01011101 11111101 011100101 11110101 01011111 110101010 01110111 1111010 11010100 11110011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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