Analysis of Spring Shower
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Winked to the birdcherry, gulped amid tears,
Splashed over carriages' varnish, trees' tremble.
Full moon. The musicians are picking their way
To the theatre. More and more people assemble.
Puddles on stone. Like a throat overfilled
With tears are the roses, deep with wet scalding
Diamonds. Showers of gladness thrill,
Eyelashes, stormclouds, and roses enfolding.
The moon for the first time is casting in plaster
An epic poem uncast till today:
The cordons, the flutter of dresses, the speaker
And people enraptured and carried away.
Whose is the heart whose whole blood shot to glory
Drained from the cheeks? We are held in his grip.
The hands of Kerensky are squeezing together
Into a bunch our aortas and lips.
This is not night, not rain, not a chorus
Of tearing acclaim for him, swelled to a roar-
This is the blinding leap to the Forum
From catacombs wanting an exit before.
It is not roses, not Ups, not the roaring
Crowd-it's the surf on Theatre Square,
Marking the end of the long sleep of Europe,
Proud of her own reawakening here.
Scheme | XABA XCXC DBDB XXDX XEXE CXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011011 11010010110 11001011011 1010010110010 10111011 11101011110 1010111 1010101 011011110010 110101101 01010110010 01001001001 11011111110 1101111011 0111110010 010110101 1111111010 11001111101 1101011010 1101011001 11110111010 110111001 10011011110 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,046 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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