Analysis of El Maestro

Virgilio Davila 1869 (Toa Baja) – 1943 (Bayamón)



Mi mentor era un viejo de ojos claros y vivos
que al llegar los exámenes a su terminación,
pronunciaba un discurso de muchos adjetivos,
y alcanzaba del pueblo una gran ovación.

Mientras cura y alcalde cobraban sin retrasos
y en duros relucientes la nómina mensual,
el maestro cambiaba sus haberes escasos
por viandas, en la tienda del cacique rural.

El sabía retórica, y sabía latines.
Si cualquiera moría por aquellos confines,
él era fatalmente el fúnebre orador.

A pesar de su celo y labor constante,
por mambí lo tuvieron y dejaron cesante
cuando vino Laureano Sanz de gobernador.


Scheme ABAB ACAC AAD EED
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101011111 1111110111 111111 1111010111 1111111 111111101 1101111 1111110110 1101101101 1110111 11011111 0111101101 1111111 11010111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 590
Words 100
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Virgilio Davila

Virgilio Dávila, was a Puerto Rican poet from the modern literary era, educator, politician and businessman. more…

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