Analysis of The Death of Grandfather
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok 1880 (Saint Petersburg) – 1921
We waited commonly for sleep or even death.
The instances were wearisome as ages.
But suddenly the wind's refreshing breath
Touched through the window the Holy Bible's pages:
An old man goes there - who's now all white-haired -
With rapid steps and merry eyes, alone,
He smiles to us, and often calls with hand,
And leaves us with a gait, that is well-known.
And suddenly we all, who watched the old man's track,
Well recognized just him who now lay before us,
And turning in a sudden rapture back,
Beheld a corpse with eyes forever closed ...
And it was good for us the soul's way to trace,
And, in the leaving one, to find the glee it's forming.
The time had come. Recall and love in grace,
And celebrate another house-warming!
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DXDX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 110100111101 01000100110 1100010101 110100101010 1111111111 1101010101 1111010111 0111011111 010011110111 11011111011 0100010101 101110101 01111101111 0001011101110 011110101 010010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 739 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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