Lament V
Jan Kochanowski 1530 (Sycyna Północna) – 1584 (Lublin)
Just as a little olive offshoot grows
Beneath its orchard elders' shady rows,
No budding leaf as yet, no branching limb,
Only a rod uprising, virgin-slim -
Then if the busy gardener, weeding out
Sharp thorns and nettles, cuts the little sprout,
It fades and, losing all its living hue,
Drops by the mother from whose roots it grew:
So was it with my Ursula, my dear;
A little space she grew beside us here,
Then Death came, breathing pestilence, and she
Fell, stricken lifeless, by her parent tree.
Persephone, Persephone, this flow
Of barren tears! How couldst thou will it so?
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHH |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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