Analysis of Sorcerer Virgil and I
Dimitri(Pseudonym) 1997 (St. Petersburg)
Recollection is dangerous.
Tragedy? Repeats itself.
It is a tale of a sorcerer.
Virgil, he called himself.
Dreading old age,
he looked for ways to rejuvenate.
Chopped himself into a cauldron.
To be cooked for 8 days straight.
As needed, he hired a guard.
So no one peeped in.
But as is nature,
the watchman couldn't hold it in.
It was too soon.
Virgil, like a child,
disappeared with a cry.
So it is with me.
The fate I must live by.
For I too peeped in early,
into the cauldron; the cauldron of life.
Thus, with no doubt,
will never manage to be more than a child.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDBD X EFGF GXXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100 1000101 110110100 101101 1011 11111010 10101010 111111 11011001 11110 11110 01010110 1111 10101 01101 11111 011111 1111010 0101001011 1111 11010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Adapted from Kierkegaard's Either/or.
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Written on August 10, 2021
Submitted by DimitriPseudonymous on October 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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