Analysis of And you, my friends who have been called away
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
And you, my friends who have been called away,
I have been spared to mourn for you and weep,
Not as a frozen willow over your memory,
But to cry to the world the names of those who sleep.
What names are those!
I slam shut the calendar,
Down on your knees, all!
Blood of my heart,
The people of Leningrad march out in even rows,
The living, the dead : fame can't tell them apart.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFGDG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 0111111101 1111111101 110101101100 111101011111 1111 1110100 11111 1111 010110110101 01001111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 288 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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