Analysis of Memory of Sun
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Memory of sun seeps from the heart.
Grass grows yellower.
Faintly if at all the early snowflakes
Hover, hover.
Water becoming ice is slowing in
The narrow channels.
Nothing at all will happen here again,
Will ever happen.
Against the sky the willow spreads a fan
The silk's torn off.
Maybe it's better I did not become
Your wife.
Memory of sun seeps from the heart.
What is it? -- Dark?
Perhaps! Winter will have occupied us
In the night.
| Scheme | Abxb xxxx xxxx Axxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 100111101 11100 101110101 1010 1001011100 01010 1011110101 11010 010101101 0111 1011011101 11 100111101 1111 011011101 001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 431 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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