Analysis of Winter Evening
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Moscow) – 1837 (Saint Petersburg)
The storm wind covers the sky
Whirling the fleecy snow drifts,
Now it howls like a wolf,
Now it is crying, like a lost child,
Now rustling the decayed thatch
On our tumbledown roof,
Now, like a delayed traveller,
Knocking on our window pane.
Our wretched little cottage
Is gloomy and dark.
Why do you sit all silent
Hugging the window, old gran?
Has the howling of the storm
Wearied you, at last, dear friend?
Or are you dozing fitfully
Under the spinning wheel's humming?
Let us drink, dearest friend
To my poor wasted youth.
Let us drink from grief - Where's the glass?
Our hearts at least will be lightened.
Sing me a song of how the bluetit
Quietly lives across the sea.
Sing me a song of how the young girl
Went to fetch water in the morning.
The storm wind covers the sky
Whirling the fleecy snow drifts
Now it howls like a wolf,
Now it is crying, like a lost child.
Let us drink, dearest friend
To my poor wasted youth.
Let us drink from grief - Where's the glass?
Our hearts at least will be lightened.
Scheme | ABCDefghijklmnopNQRSdotpABCDNQRS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001 1001011 111101 111101011 1100011 11011 11001100 10110101 10101010 11001 1111110 1001011 1010101 1011111 11110100 10010110 111101 111101 11111101 101111110 11011101 10010101 110111011 111100010 0111001 1001011 111101 111101011 111101 111101 11111101 101111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 787 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 191 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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