Analysis of I Am Leaving Alexandria
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin 1872 – 1963
Ah, I am leaving Alexandria
and will not see it for a long time!
I will see Cyprus, dear to the Goddess,
I will see Tyre, Epheses and Smyrna,
I will see Athens - the dream of my youth,
Corinth and far Byzantium
and the crown of all desires,
the goal of all strivings -
I will see great Rome! -
I will see everything, but not you!
Ah, I am leaving you, my darling,
and will not see you for a long, long time!
I will see much beauty
and look into many eyes,
I will kiss many lips,
I will caress many curls,
and I will whisper many names
waiting for trysts in many woods.
I will see everything, but not you!
| Scheme | abcadefghIjbklmnopI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100100 011111011 1111011010 11111010 1111001111 10010100 00111010 011110 11111 11110111 111101110 0111110111 111110 0101101 111101 1101101 01110101 10110101 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 594 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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