Analysis of Don't say he loves me as before...

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



Don't say he loves me as before,
That, as before, he treasures me...
no! He callously destroys my life,
Although I see the knife shake in his hand.

In anger, weeping, yearning, indignation,
Obsessed and wounded in my soul,
I have no life - I struggle...for him alone I live -
But what a life!.. O, what a bitter life it is!

How stingily he measures out the air for me...
Less generous than to a mortal foe...
Oh, drawing breath is difficult and painful,
I can still breathe, but I can live no more.


Scheme ABXX XXXX BXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 11011101 111000111 111011011 0101010010 01010011 11111110111 110111010111 1111010111 1100110101 11011100010 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 505
Words 98
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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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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