Analysis of Ars

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



El verso es un beso santo. ¡Poned en él tan sólo,
         un pensamiento puro,
en cuyo fondo bullan hirvientes las imágenes
como burbujas de oro de un viejo vino oscuro!

¡Allí verted las flores que en la continua lucha
         ajó del mundo el frío,
recuerdos deliciosos de tiempos que no vuelven,
y nardos empapados de gotas de rocío

para que la existencia mísera se embalsame
         cual de una esencia ignota
quemándose en el fuego del alma enternecida
de aquel supremo bálsamo basta una sola gota!


Scheme ABXB XAXA XCCC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1111110111111 111 11111111 1011101101011 111111111 1110111 1111111 11111111 1011111011 111011 111111101 111111010101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 514
Words 87
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Jose Asuncion Silva

José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. more…

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