I Thought That the Heart...
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky 1855 (Omsk) – 1909 (St Petersburg)
I thought that the heart made of stone,
That it’s fully empty and dead:
Though fire in it had been thrown,
It’s not damaged or just upset.
And that’s right: it was not tormented,
If – painful, then only a bit,
But, yet, it is better to end it,
Put out, while you can do it…
The heart is in darkness entire,
I’ve known: the victory’s mine –
At last, we extinguished the fire…
And, yet, in a smoke I die.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXAX XBBB CXCX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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