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 |
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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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