Analysis of Far Off
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
I should like to relate this memory ...
but it is so faded now ... scarecely anthing is left --
because it lies far off, in the years of my early manhood.
A skin as if made of jasmine ...
that night in August -- was it August? -- that night ...
I can just barely remember the eyes; they were, I think, blue ...
Ah yes, blue; a sapphire blue.
| Scheme | XXX XXAA |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011100 11111011111 01111100111101 01111110 11010111011 111100100110111 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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