"Hours pass; no answer; waiting, waiting.
No word: another day goes by.
She's dressed since dawn, dead pale; debating,
demanding: when will he reply?"
Four weeks gone since I finished reading Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" for the second time, I remain guided with a fancy to write a poem on Tatyana -- the heroine of the tragic novel in verse -- who would spend many nights sitting on a window in her house, moon-watching and spontaneously shedding tears and thinking of her unrequited love for an arrogant aristocrat Onegin (the protagonist of the book).
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Although fascinated by uncomplicated Shakespearean rhymic pattern, I wish to follow this time the highly unusual and rarely used Pushkin Sonnet form ("A-b-A-b-C-C-d-d-E-f-f-E-g-g") for Tatyana.
Useful reading on Onegin Stanza/Pushkin Sonnet:
http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=604
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1067
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onegin_stanza
R
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No word: another day goes by.
She's dressed since dawn, dead pale; debating,
demanding: when will he reply?"
Four weeks gone since I finished reading Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" for the second time, I remain guided with a fancy to write a poem on Tatyana -- the heroine of the tragic novel in verse -- who would spend many nights sitting on a window in her house, moon-watching and spontaneously shedding tears and thinking of her unrequited love for an arrogant aristocrat Onegin (the protagonist of the book).
***
Although fascinated by uncomplicated Shakespearean rhymic pattern, I wish to follow this time the highly unusual and rarely used Pushkin Sonnet form ("A-b-A-b-C-C-d-d-E-f-f-E-g-g") for Tatyana.
Useful reading on Onegin Stanza/Pushkin Sonnet:
http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=604
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1067
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onegin_stanza
R
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