Analysis of I Thought That the Heart...
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
I thought that the heart made of stone,
That it’s fully empty and dead:
Though fire in it had been thrown,
It’s not damaged or just upset.
And that’s right: it was not tormented,
If – painful, then only a bit,
But, yet, it is better to end it,
Put out, while you can do it…
The heart is in darkness entire,
I’ve known: the victory’s mine –
At last, we extinguished the fire…
And, yet, in a smoke I die.
| Scheme | AXAX XBBB CXCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101111 11101001 11001111 11101101 01111110 11011001 111110111 1111111 011010010 11011 111010010 0100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 418 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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