Analysis of Now no-one will be listening to songs
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Now no-one will be listening to songs.
The days long prophesied have come to pass.
The world has no more miracles. Don't break
My heart, song, but be still: you are the last.
Not long ago you took your morning flight
With all a swallow's free accomplishment.
Now that you are a hungry beggar-woman,
Don't go knocking at the stranger's gate.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110011 011101111 0111110011 1111111101 1101111101 110110100 11110101010 111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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