Analysis of Bow and Strings
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
What heavy, dark delirium!
What dim and moonlit heights!
To touch the violin for years
And not to know the strings by light!
Who needs us now? And who lit up
Two hollow, melancholy faces...
And suddenly the bow felt
Someone take them up, unite them.
"How long it's been! Amidst this gloom
Just tell me this: are you still the same?"
The strings caressed the bow,
Rang out, caressed it slightly trembling.
"Is it not true, that we will never more
Be parted. It's enough..."
Yes, replied the violin,
But pain was throbbing in her heart.
The bow discerned it and grew mute,
The echo still continued in the violin...
What was a torture to them both
The people heard as music.
But the violinist didn't snuff
The candles out 'til dawn...The strings sang on...
The sun found them worn out
On the black velvet of their bed.
Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XABX XBXX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100 11011 11000111 01110111 11110111 11010010 0100011 111111 11110111 111111101 010101 1101110100 1111111101 110101 1010001 11110001 01011011 010101000001 11010111 0101110 100010101 010111111 011111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 827 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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