Analysis of Celebrate
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Celebrate our anniversary – can’t you see
tonight the snowy night of our first winter
comes back again in every road and tree -
that winter night of diamantine splendour.
Steam is pouring out of yellow stables,
the Moika river’s sinking under snow,
the moonlight’s misted as it is in fables,
and where we are heading – I don’t know.
There are icebergs on the Marsovo Pole.
The Lebyazh’ya’s crazed with crystal art.....
Whose soul can compare with my soul,
if joy and fear are in my heart? -
And if your voice, a marvellous bird’s,
quivers at my shoulder, in the night,
and the snow shines with a silver light,
warmed by a sudden ray, by your words?
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHHG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10100100111 010101110110 11010100101 1101111 1110111010 011010101 011111010 011110111 11101011 0111101 11101111 11011011 0111011 11110001 001110101 110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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