To the Many
Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)
I -- am your voice, the warmth of your breath,
I -- am the reflection of your face,
The futile trembling of futile wings,
I am with you to he end, in any case.
That's why you so fervently love
Me in my weakness and in my sin;
That's why you impulsively gave
Me the best of your sons;
That's why you never even asked
Me for any word of him
And blackened my forever-deserted home
With fumes of praise.
And they say -- it's impossible to fuse more closely,
Impossible to love more abandonedly. . .
As the shadow from the body wants to part,
As the flesh from the soul wants to separate,
So I want now -- to be forgotten..
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XXXXXXXXBB XXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 123 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 10, 3 |
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