Analysis of Book Of Timur - The Winter And Timur
So the winter now closed round them
With resistless fury. Scattering
Over all his breath so icy,
He inflamed each wind that blithe
To assail them angrily.
Over them he gave dominion
To his frost-unsharpened tempests;
Down to Timur's council went he,
And with threat'ning voice address'd him:--
"Softly, slowly, wretched being!
Live, the tyrant of injustice;
But shall hearts be scorch'd much longer
By thy flames,--consume before them?
If amongst the evil spirits
Thou art one,--good! I'm another.
Thou a greybeard art--so I am;
Land and men we make to stiffen.
Thou art Mars! And I Saturnus,--
Both are evil-working planets,
When united, horror-fraught.
Thou dost kill the soul, thou freezes
E'en the atmosphere; still colder
Is my breath than thine was ever.
Thy wild armies vex the faithful
With a thousand varying torments;
Well! God grant that I discover
Even worse, before I perish!
And by God, I'll give thee none.
Let God hear what now I tell thee!
Yes, by God! from Death's cold clutches
Nought, O greybeard, shall protect thee,
Not the hearth's broad coalfire's ardour,
Not December's brightest flame."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111 1110100 10111110 1011111 1011100 10111010 1110101 1111011 01111011 10101010 10101010 11111110 11101011 10101010 11111010 1011111 10111110 111011 11101010 1010101 11101110 11010110 11111110 11101010 10101001 11111010 10101110 0111111 11111111 11111110 1111011 101111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,088 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 33 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 863 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 184 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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