Analysis of Gamajun, the Prophetic Bird
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok 1880 (Saint Petersburg) – 1921
On waters, spread without end,
Dressed with the sunset so purple,
It sings and prophesies for land,
Unable to lift the smashed wings' couple...
The charge of Tartars' hordes it claims,
And bloody set of executions,
Earthquake, and hunger and the flames,
The death of justice, crime’s intrusion...
And caught with fear, cold and smooth,
The fair face flames as one of lovers’,
But sound with prophetic truth
The lips that the bloody foam covers!...
| Scheme | ABCBDEDFGHIH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011 1101110 11010011 0101101110 01110111 01011010 1010001 011101010 0111101 011111110 1110101 011010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 459 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 347 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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