Boris Godunov
Pushkin's history play in blank verse, the Tsar who murdered his way to the throne and the pretender who took it from him, in Alfred Hayes's English.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,936 lines, 90% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 89% to 91%). Alliteration runs at 1.03 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.27 expected). 44% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Drama in Verseiambic pentameter · 5 linesPrince Shuisky and Vorotinskyiambic pentameter · 106 linesThe Peopleiambic pentameter · 24 linesThe New Nunnery. The Peopleiambic hexameter · 29 linesBoris, Patriarch, Boyarsiambic pentameter · 38 linesNightiambic pentameter · 198 linesFence of the Monasteryiambic pentameter · 46 linesPatriarch, Abbot of the Chudov Monasteryiambic pentameter · 22 linesTwo Attendantsiambic pentameter · 52 linesTavern on the Lithuanian Frontieriambic pentameter · 226 linesPalace of the Tsariambic pentameter · 169 linesThe Pretender and a Catholic Priestiambic pentameter · 137 linesMnishek in Samboriambic pentameter · 59 linesVishnevetsky, Mnishekiambic pentameter · 44 linesThe Garden. The Fountainiambic pentameter · 216 linesThe Lithuanian Frontier (October 16Th, 1604)iambic pentameter · 38 linesThe Tsar, the Patriarch and Boyarsiambic pentameter · 129 linesA Battleiambic pentameter · 13 linesThe Peopleiambic pentameter · 15 linesSyevskiambic pentameter · 64 linesPretender and Pushkiniambic pentameter · 185 linesA Tentiambic pentameter · 70 linesPublic Square in Moscowiambic pentameter · 41 linesA Guard on the Staircase. Feodor at a Windowiambic pentameter · 10 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Boris Godunov: a drama in verse, Project Gutenberg ebook #5089. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.