Analysis of September
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
The gardens full of gold and decay,
With lure of purple of the swelling ailments,
And tardy heat of sun in curves of sunbeam’s remnants,
Unable to distil into the fragrant spray.
The carpets’ yellow silk and traces, roughly laid,
And the avowed false of the preceding meeting,
And ponds of parks, extinguished, deep and sad,
And ready long ago for suffering and missing…
But ones’ hearts only seek past beauty in decays,
Just the allurement of enchanted forces,
And they, who’ve tested the unearthly lotus,
Are thrilled by fragrance of autumnal days.
Scheme | ABBA XCXC DXXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 010111001 11110101010 010111011110 010101010101 010101010101 000111001010 0111010101 0101011100010 111101110001 101101010 01110001010 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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