Analysis of To Mother

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 1892 (Moscow) – 1941 (Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR)



In the old Strauss waltz for the first time
    We had listened to your quiet call,
    Since then all the living things are alien
    And the knocking of the clock consoles.

We, like you, are gladly greeting sunsets,
    And are drunk on nearness of the end.
    All, with which on better nights we're wealthy
    Is put in the hearts by your own hand.

Bowing to a child's dreams with no tire.
    (Only crescent looked in them indeed
    Without you)! You have led your kids past
    Bitter lifetime of the thoughts and deeds.

From the early age the sad one's close to us,
    Laughter bores and home we left behind..
    Our ship not in good times left the harbor
    And it sails by will of every wind!

Azure isle of childhood is paling,
    On the deck of ship we stand alone.
    It appears, oh mother, to your daughters
    You've left an inheritance of woe.


Scheme XXXX XXXX AXXX XBAB XXXX
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Quatrain  (20%)
Metre 001111011 111011101 11101011100 001010101 111110101 01111101 1111101110 110011111 1010111110 101010101 011111111 10110101 10101011111 101011101 10110111010 0111111001 1011111 101111101 1011101110 111010011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 890
Words 155
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

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