Analysis of Midnight Estate

Velimir Khlebnikov 1885 (Malye Derbety) – 1922 (Kresttsy, Krestetsky District, Novgorod Oblast)



Midnight estate, Genghis Khanerate!
Rustle, blue birches.
Bright sunset, Zarathustrate!
And you, blue sky, Mozartate!
You twilight-cloud, be Goya!
And you at night, cloud,  rainate!
A whirlwind of smiles just flew by,
Laughing with claws of shrieking,
Then I saw the hangman
And surveyed boldly the midnight hush.
And I called you, bold-featured,
And he brought the drowned back from the river.
"Their forget-me-not is louder than a scream," -
I told the sail of night.
The earth's axis splashed out another day,
Night's bulk is closing in.
I dreamed I saw a salmon-girl
In the waves of a midnight waterfall.
The pines are Tatared by the tempest
And the Mongol rainclouds move,
Yet words close in, Cains of silence, -
And these saints are fallen.
And with his guard blue Hasdrubal
Walked heavily to the stone ball.


Scheme ABAACADEFGAHIAAJKLAMBFKL
Poetic Form
Metre 101101 1011 111 01111 111110 011111 0111111 1011110 111010 00110011 0111110 0110111010 10111110101 110111 0110110101 111100 11110101 00110110 01111010 001011 11101110 011110 011111 11001011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 799
Words 141
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 635
Words per stanza (avg) 139
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Velimir Khlebnikov

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov, was a poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it. more…

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