XXII + 

And my Tattiana now began + 

To understand by slow degrees + 

More clearly, God be praised, the man, + 

Whom autocratic fate’s decrees + 

Had bid her sigh for without hope⁠— + 

A dangerous, gloomy misanthrope, + 

Being from hell or heaven sent, + 

Angel or fiend malevolent. + 

Which is he? or an imitation, + 

A bogey conjured up in joke, + 

A Russian in Childe Harold’s cloak, + 

Of foreign whims the impersonation⁠— + 

Handbook of fashionable phrase + 

Or parody of modern ways? + 