Analysis of Nature is a Sphinx...

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



Nature's a Sphinx. And her ordeal
Is all the more destructive to mankind
Because, perhaps, she has no riddle.
Nor did she ever have one.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 10010001 1101010111 010111110 1111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 144
Words 27
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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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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