Analysis of The Girl

Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)



By a cliff a golden cloud once lingered;
On his breast it slept…

From the swing, from the garden, helter-skelter,
A twig runs up to the glass.
Enormous, close, with a drop of emerald
At the tip of the cluster cast.

The garden is clouded, lost in confusion,
In staggering, teeming fuss.
The dear one, as big as the garden, a sister
By nature-a second glass!

But then this twig is brought in a tumbler
And put by the looking-glass;
Which wonders:-Who is it that blurs my vision,
From the dull, from the prison-class?


Scheme XX ABXX CXAB ABCB
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101110 11111 10110101010 0111101 0101101110 10110101 01011010010 0100101 011111010010 1100101 1111110010 0110101 11011111110 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 524
Words 97
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Boris Pasternak

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

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