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?
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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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