Nicholas Nekrassov: A Sketch of His Life
My darling Mother, look at this,I did the best I could in it,Please read it through and tell me ifYou think there's any good in it.
About this text
Nicholas Nekrassov: A Sketch of His Life is in the public domain. This text is taken from Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?, Project Gutenberg ebook #9619; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Nikolai Nekrasov, Nicholas Nekrassov: A Sketch of His Life, in Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? (1917), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #9619, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/nekrasov-who-can-be-happy/nicholas-nekrassov-a-sketch-of-his-life.html, id L25495.
Form and metre
Nicholas Nekrassov: A Sketch of His Life is 4 lines in a single stanza.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A-A this · itA · if · itA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| My darling Mother, look at this, | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| I did the best I could in it, | 8 | ········ |
| Please read it through and tell me if | 8 | ········ |
| You think there's any good in it. | 8 | ···/˘··· |
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