Analysis of The Demon In Me
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 1892 (Moscow) – 1941 (Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR)
The demon in me's not dead,
He's living, and well.
In the body as in a hold,
In the self as in a cell.
The world is but walls.
The exit's the axe.
("All the world's a stage,"
The actor prates.)
And that hobbling buffoon
Is no joker;
In the body as in glory,
In the body as in a toga.
May you live forever!
Cherish your life,
Only poets in bone
Are as in a lie.
No, my eloquent brothers,
We'll not have much fun,
In the body as with Father's
Dressing-gown on.
We deserve something better.
We wilt in the warm.
In the body as in a byre.
In the self as in a cauldron.
Marvels that perish
We don't collect.
In the body as in a marsh,
In the body as in a crypt.
In the body as in furthest
Exile. It blights.
In the body as in a secret,
In the body as in the vice
Of an iron mask.
Scheme | ABCBDEFDGHIJHKLMNONPHQHORSTUVDWXY |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100111 11001 00101001 0011001 01111 0101 10101 0101 0110001 1110 00101010 001010010 111010 1011 101001 11001 1110010 11111 00101110 1011 1011010 11001 00101001 00110010 10110 1101 00101001 00101001 00101010 111 001010010 00101001 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 33 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 569 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 164 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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