This is an analysis of 1918 by Boris Pasternak.
Stars were racing; waves were washing headlands.
Salt went blind, and tears were slowly drying.…
Browse poems by Boris Pasternak
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XaXa XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,8,4,
- Metre: 1010101010 1111101010 1000111010 10111000010 1010110100 1110101110 0111100010 0010101110 1100101010 10101010110 1010110110 1011111010 1111111 1111111 11111 111111 1111111 111111 1111 1111111 111111 1111111 1111111 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 25
