Analysis of Hops
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Beneath the willow wound round with ivy
we take cover from the worst
of the storm, with a greatcoat round
our shoulders and my hands around your waist.
I've got it wrong. That isn't ivy
entwined in the bushes round
the wood, but hops. You intoxicate me!
Let's spread the greatcoat on the ground.
| Scheme | AXBX ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 010111110 1110101 1011011 10100110111 111111010 0100101 011110101 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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