Analysis of Poppies
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
The gay day is ablaze… And in the languid grass
The poppies’ patches burn like impotent desire…
Like lips that can allure or deathly poison us,
Or wings of butterfly, wide spread and red like fire.
The gay day is ablaze… But old and empty stands
This garden, long ago lost of the feasts and pleasure,
And poppies,weathered, like old women’s heads,
Are warmly overspread by heaven chalice, azure.
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 011101000101 0101011100010 111101110101 111101101110 011101110101 1101011101010 011111 11011101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 406 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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