Analysis of Notturno
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
Select a dark night and in a field, unpeopled, naked,
dip into gray twilight.... May the air, having fanned, becalm,
May the stars, winking, in the cold sky slumber on....
Tell the heart not to count its thumps....
Stop in mid-step and listen! You're not alone... The wings
of a bird, heavy, sodden, drift through the fog.
Listen…. it's the flight of a predator, a sovereign avian,
They call that bird T i m e, and on its wings is your will,
A passing dream of happiness, hopes' golden rags …
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110001110 1011110110101 101100011101 10111111 1011010110101 10110101101 1010110100010100 111111110111111 010111001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 498 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 362 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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