Analysis of How can you bear to look at the Neva?
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
How can you bear to look at the Neva?
How can you bear to cross the bridges?.
Not in vain am I known as the grieving one
Since the time you appeared to me.
The black angels' wings are sharp,
Judgment Day is coming soon,
And raspberry-colored bonfires bloom,
Like roses, in the snow.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111010 111111010 10111110101 10110111 0110111 1011101 01010101 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 290 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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