XII + 

The butt of scandal having been, + 

’Tis dreadful⁠—ye agree, I hope⁠— + 

To pass with reasonable men + 

For a fictitious misanthrope, + 

A visionary mortified, + 

Or monster of Satanic pride, + 

Or e’en the “Demon” of my strain. + 

Onegin⁠—take him up again⁠— + 

In duel having killed his friend + 

And reached, with nought his mind to engage, + 

The twenty-sixth year of his age, + 

Wearied of leisure in the end, + 

Without profession, business, wife, + 

He knew not how to spend his life. + 