Analysis of Know'st Thou What Gray Methuselah
Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov 1787 (Vologda) – 1855 (Vologda)
Know'st thou what gray Methuselah
Pronounced when parting with this life?
Man's born a slave,
He dies a slave,
And death will never tell him why
He walked this lovely vale of tears,
Suffered, wept, endured, and disappeared.
| Scheme | ABCCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110100 01110111 1101 1101 01110111 11110111 10101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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