Analysis of Native Land
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 1814 (Moscow) – 1841 (Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Oblast)
I love my native land with such perverse affection!
My better judgement has no standing here.
Not glory, won in bloody action,
nor yet that calm demeanour, trusting and austere,
nor yet age-hallowed rites or handed-down traditions;
not one can stir my soul to gratifying visions.
And yet I love - a mystery to me -
her dreary steppelands wrapped in icy silence,
her boundless, swaying, forest-mantled highlands,
the flood waters in springtime, ample as the sea;
I love to jolt along a narrow country byway
and, slowly peering through the darkness up ahead
while sighing for a lodging, glimpse across the highway
the mournful trembling fires of villages outspread.
I love the smoke of stubble blazing,
heaped wagons on the steppe at night,
a hill mid yellow cornfields raising,
a pair of birch trees silver-bright.
With pleasure few have yet discovered,
a laden granary I see,
a hut with straw thatch neatly covered,
carved window shutters swinging free.
On feast nights with the dew descending,
I'll watch till midnight, never fear
the dance, the stamps and whistles blending
with mumbling rustics full of beer.
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Metre | 1111011101010 1101011101 110101010 1111110001 1111011101010 111111110010 0111010011 0101101010 0101010110 01100110101 111101010101 010101010101 110101010101 0101001011001 110111010 11010111 011101110 01111101 110111010 010111 011111010 11010101 111101010 1111101 010101010 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 20 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 446 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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