Analysis of The Demon
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 1814 (Moscow) – 1841 (Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Oblast)
“...Cold and regretless shalt thou view this sphere,
Where crime’s inseparable from fate,
Where beauty only blossoms to grow sear,
Where all is miserable, where, without fear
No one can either love or hate.
Know’st thou, Tamára, what is mortal love?
A febrile movement of the blood!
Years roll away—the pulse can scarcely move,
Love’s wither’d branches cease to bud.
Who can resist new beauty’s luring bait?
Who, parting, never shed a tear?
Who can withstand the tedium of fate,
The weariness of all things here?
No, my beloved, believe, ’tis not thy lot
To perish in a living grave,
In silence, languish on this narrow spot,
Of brutal jealousy the slave....”
Scheme | ABAABCDEDBFBGHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 110100011 1101010111 11110001011 11110111 111111101 0110101 1101011101 1110111 110111101 11010101 1101010011 01001111 1101011111 11000101 0101011101 11010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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