Analysis of Sun, Sun
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin 1872 – 1963
Sun, sun,
divine Ra-Helios,
you delight
the hearts of kings and heroes,
sacred horses neigh to you,
in Heliopolis they sing hymns to you;
when you shine,
lizards crawl out onto rocks
and boys go laughing
to swim in the Nile.
Sun, sun,
I am a pale scribbler,
a library recluse,
but I love you, sun, no less
than a tanned sailor
smelling of fish and salt water,
and no less
than his accustomed heart
rejoices
at your royal rising
from the ocean,
my heart trembles,
when your dusty, but flaming ray
slips
through the narrow window by the ceiling
onto my filled page
and my thin, yellowish hand,
writing out in vermilion
the first letter of a hymn to you,
O Ra-Helios sun!
Scheme | AbcdeefghiAjkljjlmbhabnohpqaea |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11 01110 101 0111010 1010111 0010011111 111 1011101 01110 11001 11 110110 01001 1111111 10110 10110110 011 110101 1 111010 1010 111 11101101 1 1010101010 10111 0111001 1010010 011010111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 521 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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