Analysis of I love Thee
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
I loved thee; and perchance until this moment
Within my breast is smouldering still the fire!
Yet I would spare thy pain the least renewal,
Nothing shall rouse again the old desire!
I loved thee with a silent desperation--
Now timid, now with jealousy brought low,
I loved devoutly,--with such deep devotion--
Ah may God grant another love thee so!
I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet
To die down thoroughly within my soul;
But let it not dismay you any longer;
I have no wish to cause you any sorrow.
I loved you wordlessly, without a hope,
By shyness tortured, or by jealousy.
I loved you with such tenderness and candor
And pray God grants you to be loved that way again.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XXACXXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100101110 0111111010 11111101010 10110101010 1111010010 1101110011 11010111010 1111010111 1111011111 1111000111 11110111010 11111111010 11110101 1101011100 11111100010 011111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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