‘Like a brazier’s bronze cinders,’
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Like a brazier’s bronze cinders,
the sleepy garden’s beetles flowing.
Level with me, and my candle,
a flowering world is hanging.
As if into unprecedented faith,
I cross into this night,
where the poplar’s beaten grey
veils the moon’s rim from sight.
Where the pond’s an open secret,
where apple-trees whisper of waves,
where the garden hanging on piles,
holds the sky before its face.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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