Analysis of I Don't Like Flowers
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
I don't like flowers - they do remind me often
Of funerals, of weddings and of balls;
Their presence on tables for a dinner calls.
But sub-eternal roses' ever simple charm
Which was my solace when I was a child,
Has stayed - my heritage - a set of years behind,
Like Mozart's ever-living music's hum.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101101110 1100110011 11011010101 110101010101 1111011101 111100011101 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 303 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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