They Didn’t Meet
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
They didn't meet me, roamed,
On steps with lanterns bright.
I entered quiet home
In murky, pail moonlight.
Under a lamp's green halo,
With smile of kept in rage,
My friend said, 'Cinderella,
Your voice is very strange…'
A cricket plays its fiddle;
A fire-place grew black.
Oh, someone took my little
White shoe as a keep-sake,
And gave me three carnations,
While casting dawn eyes -.
My sins for accusations,
You couldn't be disguised.
And heart hates to believe in
The time, that's close too,
When he will ask for women
To try on my white shoe.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XXXX BXBX CXCX XDXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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