Analysis of Everything
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Everything’s looted, betrayed and traded,
black death’s wing’s overhead.
Everything’s eaten by hunger, unsated,
so why does a light shine ahead?
By day, a mysterious wood, near the town,
breathes out cherry, a cherry perfume.
By night, on July’s sky, deep, and transparent,
new constellations are thrown.
And something miraculous will come
close to the darkness and ruin,
something no-one, no-one, has known,
though we’ve longed for it since we were children.
Scheme | ABAB XXXC XDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 101001010 111101 10101101 11101101 11001001101 111001001 1111110010 101011 010010011 11010010 10111111 1111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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