Analysis of Hamlet
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter.
I am trying, standing in the door,
To discover in the distant echoes
What the coming years may hold in store.
The nocturnal darkness with a thousand
Binoculars is focused onto me.
Take away this cup, O Abba Father,
Everything is possible to Thee.
I am fond of this Thy stubborn project,
And to play my part I am content.
But another drama is in progress,
And, this once, O let me be exempt.
But the plan of action is determined,
And the end irrevocably sealed.
I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood:
Life is not a walk across a field.
Scheme | ABXB CDAD XXXX CEXE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01011001110 111010001 1010001010 101011101 0010101010 0100110101 1011111010 10110011 1111111010 011111110 101010101 011111101 1011101010 001010001 1101111101 111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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