Analysis of Melancolía (Silva)
Jose Asuncion Silva 1865 (Bogotá) – 1896 (Bogotá)
De todo lo velado,
tenue, lejana y misteriosa surge
vaga melancolía
que del ideal al cielo nos conduce.
He mirado reflejos de ese cielo
en la brillante lumbre
con que ahuyenta las sombras, la mirada
de sus ojos azules.
Leve cadena de oro
que una alma a otra alma con sus hilos une
oculta simpatía,
que en lo profundo de lo ignoto bulle,
y que en las realidades de la vida
se pierde y se consume
cual se pierde una gota de rocío
sobre las yerbas que el sepulcro cubren.
Scheme | AXBC DEAC EFBD AXXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11111 110 11011111 111111 1111 111111010 1111 1010110 1101001101111 110 11111111 111111110 111101 111101111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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