Analysis of Imitators
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
A boat came in; the cliff was baked;
The noisy boat-chain fell and clanked on
The sand-an iron rattle-snake,
A rattling rust among the plankton.
And two got out; and from the cliff
I felt like calling down, 'Forgive me,
But would you kindly throw yourselves
Apart or else into the river?
Your miming is without a fault-
Of course the seeker finds the fancied-
But stop this playing with the boat!
Your model on the cliff resents it.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100111 010111011 01110101 010101010 01110101 111101011 11110101 011101010 1110101 110101010 11110101 110101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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