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.
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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