Analysis of You'll live, but I'll not; perhaps

Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)



You'll live, but I'll not; perhaps,
The final turn is that.
Oh, how strongly grabs us
The secret plot of fate.

They differently shot us:
Each creature has its lot,
Each has its order, robust, --
A wolf is always shot.

In freedom, wolves are grown,
But deal with them is short:
In grass, in ice, in snow, --
A wolf is always shot.

Don't cry, oh, friend my dear,
If, in the hot or cold,
From tracks of wolves, you'll hear
My desperate recall.


Scheme xxax abxB xxxB xxxx
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 1111101 010111 111011 010111 110011 110111 1111001 01111 010111 111111 010101 01111 111111 100111 111111 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 433
Words 87
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova was born in 1889 in Odessa on the Black Sea coast. In 1910 she married Nikolai Gumilev, who was also a poet. He was shot as an alleged counter-revolutionary in 1921. Very little of Akhmatova's poetry was published between 1923 and 1941. After Stalin's death her poetry began to be published again. She died in 1966, in a suburb of Moscow. more…

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