Analysis of El mal del siglo

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



Doctor, un desaliento de la vida
que en lo íntimo de mí se arraiga y nace,
el mal del siglo... el mismo mal de Werther,
de Rolla, de Manfredo y de Leopardi.
Un cansancio de todo, un absoluto
desprecio por lo humano... un incesante
renegar de lo vil de la existencia
digno de mi maestro Schopenhauer;
un malestar profundo que se aumenta
con todas las torturas del análisis...

-Eso es cuestión de régimen: camine
de mañanita; duerma largo; báñese;
beba bien; coma bien; cuídese mucho:
¡Lo que usted tiene es hambre...!  


Scheme ABCAAADCAB XBDC
Poetic Form
Metre 10111110 1111111111 1111111110 1101010111 111111 111111 100111111 111101 111111 1111111 11111111 1101011011 111011110 111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 533
Words 95
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 4
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 194
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 10, 2023

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Jose Asuncion Silva

José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. more…

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