Analysis of Those Born In Obscure Times
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok 1880 (Saint Petersburg) – 1921
Those born in obscure times
Do not remember their way.
We, children of Russia's frightful years
Cannot forget a thing.
Incinerating years!, do you bring tidings
of madness or of hope?
The days of war, the days of freedom
Have left a bloody sheen on our faces.
There is a muteness - the tocsin bell
Has made us close our lips.
In our hearts, once so ardent,
There is a fateful emptiness.
Let the croaking ravens
Take flight above our deathbed -
O Lord, O Lord, may those more worthy than us,
Behold Thy kingdom!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 1101011 110110101 100101 0100111110 110111 011101110 11010111010 1101011 1111101 01011110 11010100 101010 1101101 11111111011 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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