Analysis of To Her Portrait
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 1648 (San Miguel Nepantla) – 1695 (Mexico City)
This that you see, the false presentment planned
With finest art and all the colored shows
And reasonings of shade, doth but disclose
The poor deceits by earthly senses fanned!
Here where in constant flattery expand
Excuses for the stains that old age knows,
Pretexts against the years' advancing snows,
The footprints of old seasons to withstand;
'Tis but vain artifice of scheming minds;
'Tis but a flower fading on the winds;
'Tis but a useless protest against Fate;
'Tis but stupidity without a thought,
A lifeless shadow, if we meditate;
'Tis death, tis dust, tis shadow, yea, 'tis nought.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1101010101 01111101 0101110101 1101010001 0101011111 101010101 011110101 1111001101 1101010101 110101011 1101000101 01011110 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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