Analysis of There are the words that couldn’t be twice said
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
There are the words that couldn’t be twice said,
He, who said once, spent out all his senses.
Only two things have never their end –
The heavens’ blue and the Creator’s mercy.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111111 1111111110 101111011 01010001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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