Analysis of Our Native Earth
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
We do not carry it in lockets on the breast,
And do not cry about it in poems,
It does not wake us from the bitter rest,
And does not seem to us like Eden promised.
In our hearts, we never try to treat
This as a subject for the bargain row,
While being ill, unhappy, spent on it,
We even fail to see it or to know.
Yes, this dirt on the feet suits us fairly,
Yes, this crunch on the teeth suits us just,
And we trample it nightly and daily --
This unmixed and non-structural dust.
But we lay into it and become it alone,
And therefore call this earth so freely -- my own.
Scheme | ABACDEFEGCGCHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010101 0111011010 1111110101 01111111010 0101110111 1100110101 1101010111 1101111111 1111011110 111101111 0110110010 101011001 111011001101 0111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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