Analysis of Ego
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
A week son of the dying generation,
I would not seek the roses of Alps,
I will not gain the beautiful sensation,
Not from wave’s noise, nor from young tempests hums.
But I would see on fields of scarlet glass
The brilliant and forever crying highlands,
The faded flowers in whites of tables’ vase,
The ornament, that flame of evening founds.
And when my head has sunk in nightly rest,
I read dreamed stories, lost of any real,
Forgotten words of books, burned in forgotten past,
In hazy sleep, I kiss with hot appeal.
| Scheme | ABAX XXXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 0111010010 111101011 11110100010 111111111 1111111101 01000101010 01010011101 0100111101 0111110101 1111011101 010111100101 0101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 519 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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