Analysis of Somewhere there is a simple life
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
Somewhere there is a simple life and a world,
Transparent, warm and joyful. . .
There at evening a neighbor talks with a girl
Across the fence, and only the bees can hear
This most tender murmuring of all.
But we live ceremoniously and with difficulty
And we observe the rites of our bitter meetings,
When suddenly the reckless wind
Breaks off a sentence just begun -
But not for anything would we exchange this splendid
Granite city of fame and calamity,
The wide rivers of glistening ice,
The sunless, gloomy gardens,
And, barely audible, the Muse's voice.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101001 0101010 11100101101 01010100111 111010011 1111011000 0101011101010 11000101 11010101 111101101110 10101100100 011011001 011010 010100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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