Analysis of Clouds
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 1814 (Moscow) – 1841 (Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Oblast)
Clouds in the skies above, heavenly wanderers,
Long strings of snowy pearls stretched over azure plains!
Exiles like I, you rush farther and farther on,
Leaving my dear North, go distances measureless.
What drives you southward? Is't envy that covertly
Prods you or malice whose arrows strike openly?
Destiny is it? A crime hanging over you?
Or friendship's honeyed but poisonous calumny?
No! O'er those barren wastes heedlessly journeying,
Passion you know not or anguish or punishment;
Feeling you lack, you are free - free eternally,
You have no homeland, for you there's no banishment.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101100100 111101110101 11111100101 1011111001 1111011101010 111101101100 100110110101 1111100100 11011011100 101111101100 101111110100 11111111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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