Analysis of A Magic Moment I Remember
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare
I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long did I hear your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.
Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.
In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me
No one to cry for, live for, love.
Then came a moment of reinessance,
I looked up - you again are there
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare
Scheme | abCBdcefghehijkjcbCB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010101010 11110101 010100010 11110001 111101010 1100111 111111010 11110111 110101110 01001101 010111010 11010001 0111010100 11011101 11011011 11111111 1101011 11110111 010100010 11110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 554 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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