Analysis of A Wish
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
The days drag on, each moment multiplies
Within my wounded heart the pain and sadness
Of an unhappy love and, dark, gives rise.
To sleepless dreams, the haunting dreams of madness
But I do not complain - instead, I weep;
Tears bring me solace, comforted they leave me.
My spirit, captive held by grief, a deep.
And bitter rapture finds in them, believe me.
Pass, life! Come, empty phantom, onward fly.
And in the silent void of darkness vanish.
Dear it to me my love's unending anguish;
If as I die I love, pray let me die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111010 01110101010 1101010111 11010101110 1111010111 11110100111 1101011101 01010101011 1111010101 00010111010 11111101010 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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