Analysis of Let Somebody Else Rest by Southern Sea
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Let somebody else rest by southern sea,
Enjoying the paradise land,
It's northerly here, and fall of this year,
I chose to be my girl-friend.
I've carried here the memory sure
Of my last rejecting a date -
The flame, so cold, so easy and pure,
Of my overcoming the fate.
| Scheme | XXXX ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 110111101 0100101 1100101111 1111111 110101001 11101001 011111001 1110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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