Analysis of They Didn’t Meet
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
They didn't meet me, roamed,
On steps with lanterns bright.
I entered quiet home
In murky, pail moonlight.
Under a lamp's green halo,
With smile of kept in rage,
My friend said, 'Cinderella,
Your voice is very strange…'
A cricket plays its fiddle;
A fire-place grew black.
Oh, someone took my little
White shoe as a keep-sake,
And gave me three carnations,
While casting dawn eyes -.
My sins for accusations,
You couldn't be disguised.
And heart hates to believe in
The time, that's close too,
When he will ask for women
To try on my white shoe.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX BXBX CXCX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 110111 111101 110101 01011 1001110 111101 111010 111101 0101110 010111 111110 111011 0111010 11011 111010 110101 0111010 01111 1111110 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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