Analysis of If the Moon on the skies Does not Roam
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
If the moon on the skies does not roam,
But cools, like a seal above,
My dead husband enters the home
To read the letters of love.
He remembers the box, made of oak,
With the lock, very secret and odd,
And spreads through a floor the stroke
Of his feet in the iron bond.
He watches the times of the meetings
And the signatures' blurry set.
Hasn't had he sufficiently grievings
And pains in this word until that?
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DXDX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 101101111 1110101 11101001 1101011 101001111 101101001 0110101 11100101 110011010 00100101 101101001 01011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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