Analysis of The September Rose

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet 1820 (Mtsensk) – 1892 (Moscow)



To sighs of morning air, that froze,-
(With her lips opened for a say),  
How curiously has smiled the rose
On a September fleeting day!

And how has she ever dared
To greet, with air of springy queens,
The single blue-tit, in the bare
Shrubs fleshing in the orb of wings;

To bloom with steadfast dream that later,
Just leaving her cold bed in rest,
She’ll cling, the last and dissipated,  
To a young hostess’s charming breast!


Scheme ABAB XXXX XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 11110111 10110101 110001101 10010101 0111101 1111111 01011001 1100111 11111110 11001101 11010100 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 429
Words 80
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, later known as Shenshin, was a renowned Russian poet regarded as the finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature. more…

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