Analysis of For The Reader's Ear
Jose Asuncion Silva 1865 (Bogotá) – 1896 (Bogotá)
No, that was not passion,
It was the vague tenderness
Inspired by a sickly child,
Lang syne, and moon pale nights.
The spirit sings only
When the heart is moved,
When, shaken by love’s power, it trembles,
Broods, draws back, says not a word.
True passion might in fact
Have been…these pages,
That were they written in happier times
Would have appeared as tears, not verses.
Scheme | XAXX XXAX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 111110 1101100 01010101 110111 010110 10111 110111011 1111101 110101 11110 1011001001 110111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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