Analysis of Cicero
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev 1803 ( Ovstug near Bryansk, Oryol Governorate) – 1873 (Saint Petersburg)
The Roman orator spoke out
'midst civil war and strife:
'Too long I slumbered, and Rome's night
Has overtaken me upon my journey!'
True! But in parting with Rom's glory
From the Capitoline heights
You watched in all its grandeur
The setting of her bloody sun! . . .
Blessed are they who sojourned here
In this world's fateful hours-
For they were summoned by the angels
As guests to a great feast;
They witnessed spectacles majestic,
Were brought into the inner circle,
And, while there, drank immortal life
From heav'n's own chalice!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010011 110101 1111011 1100101110 110101110 10101 1101101 01010101 111111 0111010 110101010 111011 110100010 010101010 01110101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 527 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 419 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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