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
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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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. more…

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