Analysis of He Did Love
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
He did love three things in this world:
Choir chants at vespers, albino peacocks,
And worn, weathered maps of America.
And he did not love children crying,
Or tea served with raspberries,
Or woman's hysteria.
...And I was his wife.
| Scheme | ABCDECF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111011 10111011 0110110100 011111010 111110 1100100 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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