Analysis of The Sentence
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast.
Never mind, I was ready.
I will manage somehow.
Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—
Unless . . . Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
For a long time I've foreseen this
Brilliant day, deserted house.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00111 111101 1011110 11101 01111111 1111001011 1111111 1111101 01101010 11010011110 1011111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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