Analysis of Armonías

Jose Asuncion Silva 1865 (Bogotá) – 1896 (Bogotá)



Cual la naturaleza
de la que forma parte y es fiel copia
el alma humana tiene ocultas fuerzas
silencios, luces, músicas y sombras.

Vagas nieblas también... las ilusiones
que el paisaje embellecen cuando brillan
y que desaparecen cuando asomas,
sol de la realidad que las disipas...

Y como en sucesión jamás turbada
todo nace en la tierra y todo muere,
en el mundo ideal de los espíritus
rigen eternas, semejantes leyes:

brotan sobre las tumbas de los muertos
las flores, mensajeras de alegría;
sobre la tumba de un amor llorado
brotan ensueños de tristeza mística.  


Scheme AXAA AXAA BXAA AXBX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 111 1111011111 110010111 111111 111111 111111 11111 1111111 110111111 11111111 1110011111 1111 1111111 111110 11111101 10111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 566
Words 97
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jose Asuncion Silva

José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. more…

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