Analysis of So they begin. With two years gone...
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
So they begin. With two years gone
From nurse to countless tunes they scuttle.
They chirp and whistle. Then comes on
The third year, and they start to prattle.
So they begin to see and know.
In din of started turbines roaring
Mother seems not their mother now,
And you not you, and home is foreign.
What meaning has the menacing
Beauty beneath the lilac seated,
If to steal children's not the thing?
So first they fear that they are cheated.
So ripen fears. Can he endure
A star to beat him in successes,
When he's a Faust, a sorcerer?
So first his gipsy life progresses.
So from the fence where home should lie
In flight above are found to hover
Seas unexpected as a sigh.
So first iambics they discover.
So summer nights fall down and pray
'Thy will be done' where oats are sprouting,
And menace with your eyes the day.
So with the sun they start disputing.
So verses start them on their way.
Scheme | XAXA XBXX BCBC XDED FEFE GBGB G |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 111101110 11010111 011011110 11011101 011101010 10111101 011101110 11010100 10010110 11110101 111111110 11011101 011110010 11010100 1111110 11011111 010111110 1010101 1111010 11011101 111111110 01011101 110111010 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 878 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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