Analysis of 6th Sense
The wine, which is in love with us,
is wonderful
So is the bread, which went through agony of oven,
And woman we are destined to embrace
And to enjoy after exhausting chase.
But what about scarlet sunrise
Above unearthly calm of freezing heavens
Filled up with silence,
What shall we do with the immortal poems?
Consumption isn't helpful –
Trying to eat, to drink, to kiss them –
The flash of time is so transcendental,
Yes, we despair, but confined
We are to pass them by.
Just like a boy is mesmerised,
Oblivious of games,
by woman bathing,
Tormented by mysterious desire,
However, he doesn't know the love.
Just like a slimy creature
was roaring helpless
among the lush of ferns
tormented by anticipation
of growing wings
before the eon times,
And so we are, still centuries to go
And when, O Lord, please let us know,
We, chiselled by the art and carved by nature,
Tormented spirit roars, the flesh is aching,
In agony of giving birth to organ, which can sense
And play the music of the 6th Sense.
(by Nikolay Gumilyov, 1920
translation by Svetlana Rakhimova, 2013)
Scheme | ABCDD XXXX BXBEX EXFGH GAXCXX IIGF JJ HH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 1100 1101111100110 0101110101 0101100101 1101101 01010111010 11110 11111001010 0101010 101111111 011111010 1101101 111111 110111 010011 11010 1010100010 10110101 1101010 11010 010111 1010010 1101 010101 0111110011 01111111 1110101110 1010101110 01001101110111 0101010111 111 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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