Analysis of It's spring, I leave a street where poplars...
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
It's spring, I leave a street where poplars are astonished,
Where distance is alarmed and the house fears it may fall.
Where air is blue just like the linen bundle
A discharged patient takes from hospital,
Where dusk is empty, like a broken tale,
Abandoned by a star, without conclusion,
So that expressionless, unfathomable,
A thousand clamouring eyes are in confusion.
| Scheme | XXAA XBAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 111101111010 1101010011111 11111101010 001101110 1111010101 01010101010 1100001000 0101110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 371 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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