Analysis of The Souls Of Old Men
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Inside their worn, tattered bodies
sit the souls of old men.
How unhappy the poor things are
and how bored by the pathetic life they live.
How they tremble for fear of losing that life, and how much
they love it, those befuddled and contradictory souls,
sitting -half comic and half tragic-
inside their old, threadbare skins.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111010 101111 10100111 01110010111 11101111011011 1111010001001 101100110 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 327 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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