Analysis of I Have No Use For Odic Legions
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
I have no use for odic legions,
Or for the charm of elegiac play
For me, all verse should be off kilter
Not the usual way.
If only you knew what trash gives rise
To verse, without a tinge of shame,
Like bright dandelions by a fence,
Like burdock and like cocklebur.
An angry shout, the bracing smell of tar,
Mysterious mildew on the wall…
And out comes a poem, light-hearted, tender,
To your delight and mine.
Scheme | XABA XXXB XXBX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 11111110 1101111 111111110 101001 110111111 11010111 11100101 11011 1101010111 01001101 01101011010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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