Analysis of Poets (excerpt)
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 1892 (Moscow) – 1941 (Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR)
What can I do, blind and outcast
In a world where all are fathered and sighted,
Where passions go over anathemas
As if over embankments! Where a lament
Is called - sniffles!
What can I do, by rib and Providence
Singing! - Like a wire! Sunburn! Siberia!
I travel my delusions - like a bridge!
With their weightlessness
In a world of weights.
What can I do, singer and firstborn,
In a world where the blackest - is gray!
Where inspiration is kept, as in a thermos!
With this infinity
In a finite world?!
| Scheme | XXAXA AXXAA XXAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 00111110010 1101101 11100101001 1110 1111110100 10101010100 1101010101 11100 00111 111110011 001101011 10101110010 110100 0011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 496 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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