Analysis of The Prophet
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
Longing for spiritual springs,
I dragged myself through desert sands ...
An angel with three pairs of wings
Arrived to me at cross of lands;
With fingers so light and slim
He touched my eyes as in a dream:
And opened my prophetic eyes
Like eyes of eagle in surprise.
He touched my ears in movement, single,
And they were filled with noise and jingle:
I heard a shuddering of heavens,
And angels' flight on azure heights
And creatures' crawl in long sea nights,
And rustle of vines in distant valleys.
And he bent down to my chin,
And he tore off my tongue of sin,
In cheat and idle talks aroused,
And with his hand in bloody specks
He put the sting of wizard snakes
Into my deadly stoned mouth.
With his sharp sword he cleaved my breast,
And plucked my quivering heart out,
And coals flamed with God's behest,
Into my gaping breast were ground.
Like dead I lay on desert sands,
And listened to the God's commands:
'Arise, O prophet, hark and see,
Be filled with utter My demands,
And, going over Land and Sea,
Burn with your Word the humane hearts.'
Scheme | ABABCDEEFFGHHIJJKLMNOPOQBBRBRS |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (37%) |
Metre | 10110001 1111101 11011111 01111111 1101101 11111001 01010101 11110001 111101010 010111010 110100110 01011101 01010111 0101101010 0111111 01111111 01010101 01110101 11011101 0111011 11111111 01110011 0111101 01110101 11111101 01010101 01110101 11110101 01010101 11110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,034 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 819 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 195 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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