Baktschi Serai
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz 1798 ( Zaosie, Lithuania Governorate) – 1855 (Constantinople)
In ruin are the spacious, splendid halls
With frozen forest of white columns where
The Tartar Khan his palace builded fair,
Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls.
The ivy blackens over shining walls
Enscribing in gigantic letters there
Some curse Belshazzar-like: Beware! Beware!--
Then black as crepe from crested columns falls.
Within the burnished banquet room there sings
The fountain of the harem pure and clear,
Just as of old it sang in twilights drear.
But whither love and fame speed--on what wings?
When all things else must perish these endure!
Yet both are gone! The fountain ripples pure.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBAABBA CXBCDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
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