Analysis of My Life's Burden...
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
My life’s burden’s for me light and shone,
I won’t you to be baffled or wound;
And not God, who had thought on a stone –
I do pity the stone he’s found.
I do pity the violet, faded -
Just in vain – just forgot among pages,
And the mist, by which glass has been laden,
Then – dissolved by hot tears for ages.
Not the mad woman’s pain, but the willow
Is awaking my heart’s even sadness,
‘Cause, while lulling this pain on leaves’ pillows,
It was tired and cut by winds merciless.
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011101 111111011 011111101 11100111 1110010010 1011010110 0011111110 101111110 10111101 11111010 1110111110 11100111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 496 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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