Analysis of ‘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.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1010110 010101010 10110110 01001110 110101001 110111 101101 101111 10111010 11011011 10101011 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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