Analysis of Storm-Wind

Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)



I am finished, but you live on.
And the wind, crying and moaning,
rocks the house and the clearing,
not each pine alone,
but all the trees together,
with the vast distance, whole,
like the hulls of vessels,
moored in a bay, storm-blown.
And it shakes them not from mischief,
and not with an aimless tone,
but to find, for you, from its grief,
the words of a cradle-song.


Scheme ABBCDEFCGCHI
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111 00110010 1010010 11101 1101010 101101 101110 100111 01111110 0111101 11111111 0110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 367
Words 71
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 282
Words per stanza (avg) 69
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. more…

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