Analysis of A Son Was Born To A Poor Peasant
Fyodor Sologub 1863 (Saint Petersburg) – 1927 (Saint Petersburg)
A son was born to a poor peasant.
A foul old woman stepped inside
The hut, with trembling bony fingers
Clawing her tangled locks aside.
And when the midwife wasn't looking,
Across towards that babe she reached.
And with her gnarled, misshapen fingers
His cheek she very lightly touched.
Mumbling weird words and slowly tapping
Her crooked stick, she went away.
Nobody knew what charm she'd woven,
And so the years went duly by -
The secret spell came to fulfilment:
In life, much sorrow came to him
But happiness, and joy, and true love
Fled the dark sign upon the skin.
Scheme | ABCB DXCX DXXX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 011110110 01110101 0111001010 10010101 01011010 01011111 010101010 11110101 1001101010 01011101 1111110 01011101 0101111 01110111 110001011 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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