Analysis of I Saw My Friend At The Front Door
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
I saw my friend to the front door
I stood in the golden dust.
Momentous sounds issued
From the little belfry close by.
Tossed! Such a made-up word-
What am I, a flower or a letter?
But my eyes already gaze grimly
Into the darkened looking glass.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111011 1100101 010110 10101011 110111 1110101010 111010110 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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