B.Pasternak and J.Brams: the osinato form in "Second birth"

In Pasternak's poem «Zhyzni l' mnie hotelos' slashche...» («Could I desire a sweeter life...»), which dates from the period of conception of the collection of poems «Vtoroje rozhdenie» («Second birth»), there is a citation of opening notes from Brahms' Third Intermezzo op. 117; in this music piece one can hear a lullaby based on a kind of «clear soprano ostinato» in the spirit of romanticism. The ostinato form is not only in tune with the love theme of the poem but provides the formal matrix of the collection of poems as well, where we encounter not only rhythmic figures inspired by Brahms' pivotal motif but also there are phonic repetitions related to the musical ostinato.