Analysis of But Listen, I Am Warning You
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
But listen, I am warning you
I'm living for the very last time.
Not as a swallow, nor a maple,
Not as a reed, nor as a star,
Not as spring water,
Nor as the toll of bells…
Will I return to trouble men
Nor will I vex their dreams again
With my insatiable moans.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 11011101 110101011 110101010 11011101 11110 110111 11011101 11111101 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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