Analysis of I Bless You, Forests
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 1817 (Saint Petersburg) – 1875 (Chernigov Governorate)
I bless you, forests, valleys, fields, mountains, waters,
I bless freedom and blue skies.
I bless my staff and my humble rags.
And the steppe from beginning to end,
And the sun's light, and night's darkness,
And the path I walk, pauper that I am,
And, in the field every blade of grass,
and every star in the sky!
O! if only I could encompass all life,
And join my soul with yours.
O! if only I could embrace you all,
Enemies, friends and brothers, and all nature,
And enfold all nature in my arms!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101011010 1110011 111101101 001101011 00110110 0011110111 0001100111 01001001 11101101011 011111 1110110111 10010100110 001110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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