Analysis of Demon
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
In bygone days when life's array -
The sweet song of the nightingale
And maidens' eyes, the rustling woods -
Still left a fresh impression on me,
When loftiness of feeling,
And freedom, glory, love
Artistic inspiration
So deeply stirred my blood,
My times of hope were cast in shade
And pleasure dimmed by longing,
For it was then an evil genius
Began to pay me secret visits.
Our meetings were quite dolorous:
His smile, his glance mysterious,
His venom-filled and caustic sermons
Poured frozen poison in my soul.
With endless slandering remarks
He tempted Providence;
He claimed that beauty's but a dream;
Felt scorn for inspiration;
He had no faith in love or freedom;
He looked on life with ridicule-
And in the whole of nature
He did not wish to praise a single thing.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIEJKCJLMNOPGQRSE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 01110100 01010101 110101011 11110 010101 010010 110111 11110101 0101110 111111010 011111010 1010011 11110100 110101010 11010011 11010001 110100 1111101 111010 111101110 1111110 0001110 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 614 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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