This is an analysis of the poem To Anna Akhmatova that begins with:
I think I can call on words
that will last: you are there....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b c b d X e f g h g h X c d c X a a X e a a a X f h f a h cXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 101111 1011110 101111 110100011 11000111 001001110 00101111 11111001 1110011 1111010 001111 1001011100 10001010 10101011 01011010 011000111 0100111 1011111 10101001 111011010 100101001 101001010 11100111 11111111 11100101 01100111 1101001 0111011 01110001 110111010 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 33
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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