Analysis of Amethysts
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
My eyes forgot the heavens’ blue,
To them the sun’s dust is not gold,
But I live just one substance through,
That’s to the amethyst’s planes owned.
‘Cause that that, drunker than young spring
And troubling stronger than idea,
The lilac fires have to sing
And coldly play with colors here.
And for the heart with pain and shame,
A dream comes, tender and deceiving:
As a crystal in the candles’ flame,
To stay in cold of lilac singing.
| Scheme | AXAX BXBX CBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11010101 11011111 11111101 110111 1111111 0100101010 0110111 01011101 01011101 011100010 101000101 11011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 444 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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