To the Memory of Demon
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Used to come in the blue
Of the glacier, at night, from Tamara.
With his wingtips he drew
Where the nightmares should boom, where to bar them.
Did not sob, nor entwine
The denuded, the wounded, the ailing…
A stone slab has survived
By the Georgian church, at the railings.
Hunchback shadows, distressed,
Did not dance by the fence of the temple.
Soft, about the princess
The zurna did not question the lamplight,
But the sparks in his hair
Were aglitter and bursting phosphorous,
And the giant did not hear
The dark Caucasus greying for sorrow.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AXAX XXBX XXXB XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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