Analysis of Fiat
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Dawn will set candles guttering.
It will light up and loose the swifts.
With this reminder I'll burst in:
Let life be just as fresh as this!
Dawn's like a gunshot in the dark.
A bang-and flying burning bits
Of wadding go out, spark by spark.
Let life be just as fresh as this.
Another guest outside's the wind.
At night, it huddled close to us.
It's shivering-at dawn, it rained.
Let life be just as fresh as this.
It's so ridiculous and vain!
Why did it want to guard this place?
It saw the 'No admittance' sign.
Let life be just as fresh as this.
I'll do your bidding at a sign-
A wave of kerchief-now,
While in the darkness you still reign
And while the fire's not out.
Scheme | xxxA bxbA xxxA cxdA dxcx |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110100 11110101 11010110 11111111 1101001 01010101 1111111 11111111 0101101 11110111 11001111 11111111 11010001 11111111 11010101 11111111 11110101 011101 10010111 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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