Analysis of The High Road In Winter
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
Between the rolling vapours
The moon glides soft and bright;
Across the dreary fallows
She casts a mournful light.
Along the wintry high road
A troika moves fleet;
Its little bells are ringing
One silver tone and sweet.
Some echo of my country
The driver's song recalls—
The memory of love yearnings
And noisy bacchanals.
No lights, no black-roofed dwellings—
Silence and snow ... I see
For mile on mile the road-posts
In striped monotony.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DAAA AAAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010101 011101 010101 110101 0101011 01011 1101110 110101 1101110 01011 01001110 0101 1111110 100111 1111011 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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