Analysis of The Faithless Shadows.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok 1880 (Saint Petersburg) – 1921
The faithless shadows of day are running
And high and clear is the call of bells,
Steps of the church are blazed as with the lightning,
Their stones are alive and wait for your light steps.
You'll here pass and touch the chilly stone,
That's dressed in awful sanity of span,
And let the flower of spring be thrown
Here, in this dark, before the eyes of saint.
The rose shadows in misty darkness grow,
And high and clear is the call of bells,
The darkness lays on steps, such old and low --
I'm set in light -- I wait for dear steps.
| Scheme | aBac dxdx eBec |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111110 010110111 11011111010 11101011111 111010101 1101010011 010101111 1011010111 011010101 010110111 0101111101 110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 540 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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