Analysis of Twenty-First. Night. Monday
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Twenty-first. Night. Monday.
Silhouette of the capitol in darkness.
Some good-for-nothing -- who knows why--
made up the tale that love exists on earth.
People believe it, maybe from laziness
or boredom, and live accordingly:
they wait eagerly for meetings, fear parting,
and when they sing, they sing about love.
But the secret reveals itself to some,
and on them silence settles down...
I found this out by accident
and now it seems I'm sick all the time.
| Scheme | ABXX BAXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 0110100010 11110111 1101110111 10011101100 110010100 11100110110 011111011 1010010111 01110101 11111100 011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 454 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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