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 |
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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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