Analysis of Thoughts
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
If I walk the noisy streets,
Or enter a many thronged church,
Or sit among the wild young generation,
I give way to my thoughts.
I say to myself: the years are fleeting,
And however many there seem to be,
We must all go under the eternal vault,
And someone?s hour is already at hand.
When I look at a solitary oak
I think: the patriarch of the woods.
It will outlive my forgotten age
As it outlived that of my grandfathers?.
If I dandle a young infant,
Immediately I think: farewell!
I will yield my place to you,
For I must fade while your flower blooms.
Each day, and every hour
I habitually follow in my thoughts,
Trying to guess from their number
The year which brings my death.
And where will fate send death to me?
In battle, in my travels, or on the seas?
Or will the neighbouring valley
Receive my chilled ashes?
And although to the senseless body
It is indifferent wherever it rots,
Yet close to my beloved countryside
I still would prefer to rest.
And let it be, beside the grave?s vault
That young life forever will be playing,
And impartial, indifferent nature
Eternally be shining in beauty.
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Metre | 1110101 11001011 1101011010 111111 111101110 010101111 11111000101 0110101011 111101001 11010101 11110101 11111110 1110110 01000111 1111111 111111101 11010010 10100010011 10111110 011111 01111111 01001101101 110110 011110 01101010 1101001011 11110110 1110111 011101011 1110101110 001001010 0100110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,088 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 867 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 204 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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