Analysis of What Grief! The Alley's End
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet 1820 (Mtsensk) – 1892 (Moscow)
What grief! The alley's end
Is lost in snow again today,
And once again, the silver snakes
Are crawling through the snow.
The sky's without a patch of blue,
The steppe's completely smooth and white,
A single crow is struggling hard
To beat its wings against the storm.
My soul is frozen as the land,
There is no sign of dawning there.
My languid thought drops off to sleep
Above my slowly dying work.
But in my heart still glows a hope
That accidentally, perhaps,
My soul will once again grow young
And see its native home once more,
A land where storms may come and go,
Where thought is passionate and pure,-
And where a chosen few can see
How spring and beauty bloom.
Scheme | XXXA XXXX XXXX XXXX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 110101 11010101 01010101 110101 01010111 01010101 010111001 11110101 11110101 11111101 11011111 01110101 10111101 1010001 11110111 01110111 01111101 11110001 01010111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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