Analysis of My Face Turned Upwards To The Sky
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet 1820 (Mtsensk) – 1892 (Moscow)
My face turned upwards to the sky
One summer night I lay upon some hay
A lively close-knit starry chorus
Was flickering all around.
The mute earth, nebulous and dreamlike,
Rushed off without a trace
And I, like Eden's first inhabitant,
Faced night's gaze all alone.
Was it I hurtling into midnight's depths
Or was it crowds of stars that hurtled toward me?
It seemed as if a mighty palm
Held me suspended over the abyss.
And with a heart confused and stunned
I cast my gaze into the depths,
Whence sinking every moment deeper,
I never will return.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX AXXX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 1101110111 010111010 1100101 01110001 110101 011110100 111101 111100111 11111111011 11110101 1101010001 01010101 11110101 1101001010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 542 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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