Analysis of The Anguish of a Mirage
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
They faded, the last bands of reddish,
Like whispers of prayers in night,
O tale, such seductive and maddish,
What else do you want of this heart?
Are not, beyond measure and count,
So hard in the snows my ways?
Aren’t gray empty spaces around?
Isn’t husky the ring of the bells?
And why, every minute and instant,
My heart is divided in two?
I know that she is in distance,
But feel her right near me, too.
Here they are, the snowy clouds,
I can’t take my eyes from all that:
Right now, shall merge our routs
In snows, so white and so dead.
Right now will be silently bound
And newly unbound our sleighs.
We’ll hear the bell’s common sound
In an instant of sadness and pains…
We’d heard… But we’ll not any more
Have meeting in this hazy night…
In the circle of anguish and woe
I wander on my path of blight…
They faded, the last bands of reddish,
Like whispers of prayers in night,
O tale, such seductive and maddish,
What else do you want of this heart?
Scheme | ABAC xdex xfxf xxdx edex xbxb ABAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (43%) |
Metre | 110011110 1101101 11101001 11111111 11011001 1100111 101101001 11001101 0110010010 11101001 11111010 1101111 1110101 11111111 1111101 0111011 11111001 01001101 1101101 011011001 11111101 11001101 001011001 11011111 110011110 1101101 11101001 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 961 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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