Analysis of To Boris Pilnyak
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Ah, don't I know that, groping in the gloom,
Night would not find its way out of the dark?
Am I monster who the millions' doom
Would shrug away for a few hundreds' luck?
Am I not measured by the Five-Year Plan?
Its falls and rises, aren't they also mine?
What shall I do, though, with my heartbeat, and
With things whose sluggishness boggles the mind?
In highest councils, in those spheres where reign
The highest passions and the strongest will,
The poet's post has been set up in vain:
It's dangerous-unless it's left unfilled.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110001 1111111101 111010101 1101101101 1111010111 11010101101 111111110 1111001001 0101001111 0101000101 0101111101 1100011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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