Analysis of I Sigh for You
I sigh for you, Lorena, day and night-
as a blind man sighs every day for light,
as a mother sighs for lost son-daughter
and falling on soil a fish for water.
I sigh in waking and in sleep I sigh;
I die and get alive, again I die.
| Scheme | AABB CC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010101 10111100111 1010111110 0101101110 1101000111 1101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on June 01, 2015
Modified on March 14, 2023
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