Analysis of Clothed In Beauty

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov 1866 (Moscow) – 1949 (Rome)



As if chiseled, a fruit-laden branch
Hangs in my garden, asleep - so low...
The trees sleep - and dream? - in moonlight;
And the mystery of their life is near, near...

Even if we cannot grasp it,
The mute language is still intelligible:
They use our beauty to express
How we are one amidst rays and spots of light.

And the tremor of any life's creation
Reveals itself in a lovely form;
And the variance of different things is sweetened
By shared beauty. Multiply it!

And the world will be like this unstirring garden,
Where everything heeds a harmonious silence:
Both stem and flower yield to the dear Earth;
Both flower and stem listen to the Moon.


Scheme XXAX BXXA CXXB CXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111001101 101100111 0110101 00100111111 10111011 01101101000 111010101 11110110111 00101101010 010100101 0010011001110 1110101 0011111110 11010010010 1101011011 1100110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 642
Words 120
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolist movement. more…

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