Analysis of Greetings!

Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)



Do you hear the soft rustle
beside your table?
Don't bother to write
for I'll come to you.

Is it possible you are angry
with me like the last time?
You say that you don't want to see my hands,
my hands or my eyes.

I am with you in your bright, simple room.
Don't chase me away
to where the cold, murky water
flows under the bridge.


Scheme AAXX XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110110 01110 11011 11111 111001110 111011 1111111111 11111 1111011101 11101 11011010 11001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 332
Words 70
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova was born in 1889 in Odessa on the Black Sea coast. In 1910 she married Nikolai Gumilev, who was also a poet. He was shot as an alleged counter-revolutionary in 1921. Very little of Akhmatova's poetry was published between 1923 and 1941. After Stalin's death her poetry began to be published again. She died in 1966, in a suburb of Moscow. more…

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