This is an analysis of Feasts by Boris Pasternak.

I drink the gall of skies in autumn, tuberoses'
Sweet bitterness in your betrayals burning stream;…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc dbde fefX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101010101000 110001010101 1101010101010 010101100101 11010010101010 011101110101 0101010100110 111111011110 010011111110 010101110101 1100110101110 110100100101 0111011101010 110111110011 1101011111010 111101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

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