Analysis of Unique Days
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
How I remember solstice days
Through many winters long completed!
Each unrepeatable, unique,
And each one countless times repeated.
Of all these days, these only days,
When one rejoiced in the impression
That time had stopped, there grew in years
An unforgettable succession.
Each one of them I can evoke.
The year is to midwinter moving,
The roofs are dripping, roads are soaked,
And on the ice the sun is brooding.
Then lovers hastily are drawn
To one another, vague and dreaming,
And in the heat, upon a tree
The sweating nesting-box is steaming.
And sleepy clock-hands laze away
The clockface wearily ascending.
Eternal, endless is the day,
And the embrace is never-ending.
Scheme | AXXX ABXB XCXC XCXC DCDC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11010101 110101010 1101 011101010 11111101 110100010 11111101 10100010 11111101 011111010 01110111 010101110 11010011 110101010 00010101 010101110 01011101 01100010 01010101 000111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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