Analysis of A Vision

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev 1803 ( Ovstug near Bryansk, Oryol Governorate) – 1873 (Saint Petersburg)



There is an hour at night full of an awesome wonder,
When universal silence o'er the whole world lies
And when the cosmic chariot rolls, wakening no thunder,
Into the sanctuary of the skies.

The dark of chaos comes, land, sky and water merging;
Sleep Atlas-like treads earth, its weight like lead;
The gods with dreams prophetic fire the virgin
Soul of the Muse; all else is dead.


Scheme ABAB XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11110111111010 101010100111 0101010011110 010100101 0111011101010 1101111111 011101010010 11011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 381
Words 70
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Тютчев, Pre-Reform orthography: Ѳедоръ Ивановичъ Тютчевъ) was a Russian poet and diplomat.  more…

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