Analysis of When Someone Says: "Alexandria"
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin 1872 – 1963
When someone says: "Alexandria,"
I see the white walls of a house,
a small garden row of gillyflowers,
an autumn evening's pale sunlight
and hear the music of distant flutes.
When someone says: "Alexandria,"
I see stars above the hushed city,
drunken sailors in dark quarters,
a dancing girl performing the "wasp,"
and hear tambourines and the noise of fights.
When someone says "Alexandria,"
I see a pale purple sunset above the green sea,
the flickering of furry stars
and the light grey eyes beneath thick brows
that I see even when
no one says: "Alexandria!"
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100 11011101 0110111 1101011 010101101 1110100 111010110 10100110 010101001 01100111 1110100 110110101011 01001101 001110111 111101 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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