Analysis of To the “origin of species
Boris Sveshnikov 1951 (Gorky)
A man’s progenitor looks like a monkey:
This claim is not the science hanky-panky,
And when appearance is taken as the basis
One can affirm the right of Darwin’s thesis!..
But we are all at sea when seeing Woman
Who is indeed the better kind of human!
Her kin with primates is apparent junk,
To be the most flimsy Darwin’s flank!
Perfection of the charming forms and lines
Affords the bliss to judge without wines...
How can “Survival of the Fittest” lead
To such a color of the eyes and lips?
If you could handle all with “Monkey” title
You’d never find alike delightful vital...
To rede it one cannot use Darwinism,
As well the former weapon atheism!..
We look up to the scientific manner,
But there is, by long odds, the Arcanum:
As a result of women’s “daily duty”
It’s seen the SKY-BORN essence of the BEAUTY:))!
Scheme | AABB CCXX DDXX EEFF XFAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010011010 11110101010 010101101010 1101011110 11111111010 11010101110 011110101 11011011 0101010101 010111011 1101010101 1101010101 11110111010 11010101010 1111101100 1101010010 1111001010 1111110100 1001111010 11011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 827 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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