Analysis of When They Come Alive
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Try to keep them, poet,
those erotic visions of yours,
however few of them there are that can be stilled.
Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
Try to hold them, poet,
when they come alive in your mind
at night or in the noonday brightness.
Scheme | ABCDAEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 10101011 10111111111 11110011 111110 11101011 11100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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