Analysis of Wet Paint
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
'Look out! Wet paint.' My soul was blind,
I have to pay the price,
All marked with stains of calves and cheeks
And hands and lips and eyes.
I loved you more than luck or grief
Because with you in sight
The old and yellowed world became
As white as painters' white.
I swear my friend, my gloom-it will
One day still whiter gleam,
Than lampshades, than a bandaged brow,
Than a delirious dream.
Нk 7; трогать
'Не трогать, свежевы крашен', -
Душа не берегла сь,
И память - в пятнах икр и щек,
И рук, и губ, и глаз.
Я больше всех удач и бед
За то тебя любил,
Ч 1090;о пожелте лый белый свет
С тобой - белей белил.
h 8; мгла моя, мой друг, божусь,
1054;н станет как-нибу ;дь
Беле 1081;, чем бред, чем абажур,
1063;ем белый бинт на лбу!
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB C C CCCC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 11111111 111101 11111101 010101 11111111 011101 0101101 111101 11111111 111101 1110101 1001001 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 2,075 |
Words | 314 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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