Analysis of I Hear the Oriole's Always-Grieving Voice
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
I hear the oriole's always-grieving voice,
And the rich summer's welcome loss I hear
In the sickle's serpentine hiss
Cutting the corn's ear tightly pressed to ear.
And the short skirts of the slim reapers
Fly in the wind like holiday pennants,
The clash of joyful cymbals, and creeping
From under dusty lashes, the long glance.
I don't expect love's tender flatteries,
In premonition of some dark event,
But come, come and see this paradise
Where together we were blessed and innocent.
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Metre | 11011101 0011010111 001101 1001110111 00111011 100111010 0111010010 1101010011 11011101 0001011101 11101110 10101010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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