Analysis of Departure
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Although this land is not my own,
I will remember its inland sea
and the waters that are so cold
the sand as white
as old bones, the pine trees
strangely red where the sun comes down.
I cannot say if it is our love,
or the day, that is ending.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 11010111 00101111 0111 111011 10110111 1101111101 1011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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