All The World's Ruled By A Dragon
Fyodor Sologub 1863 (Saint Petersburg) – 1927 (Saint Petersburg)
All the world's ruled by the Dragon -
Fiery, mad, wicked, perverse.
Let me praise him with a humble,
Daring and ironic curse:
You, destruction-bringer, ordered
The damp swamps to show your power;
You brought forth the trees and grasses
Growing into leaves and flowers.
All things flying, all things crawling
You made - though their time is brief.
Those aware and those ambitious
You doomed to the harshest life.
You moved and clouds started floating . . .
You chased winds along the land,
So your kisses, deadly scorching,
Would not sear before you planned.
And your orders can't be cancelled;
You have no mercy to bring.
You rule and don't hear our begging.
You don't love. You kill each thing.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XXXX BXXX BCBC XBBB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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