Analysis of Love
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov 1866 (Moscow) – 1949 (Rome)
We are two trunks ignited by lightning
Two flames in the midnight forest;
We are two meteors flying in the night,
The double-stinging arrow of a single fate!
We are two horses whose reins are held
By the same hand, - bitten by one spur;
We are two eyes of a single gaze,
Two trembling wings of one dream.
We are a pair of shadows grieving
Over the holy marble grave,
Where ancient Beauty slumbers.
The two-voiced mouth of secrets shared,
We two make a single Sphinx.
The two arms of a single cross.
| Scheme | AXXX XXBX AXB XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010110 1100110 11110010001 010101010101 111101111 101110111 111110101 11001111 11011110 10010101 110101 01111101 1110101 01110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 493 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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