Analysis of Black Messengers. (Translation of Los heraldos negros)
Cesar Vallejo 1892 (Santiago de Chuco Province) – 1938 (Paris)
There are in life such hard blows . . . I don't know!
Blows seemingly from God's wrath; as if before them
the undertow of all our sufferings
is embedded in our souls . . . I don't know!
There are few; but are . . . opening dark furrows
in the fiercest of faces and the strongest of loins,
They are perhaps the colts of barbaric Attilas
or the dark heralds Death sends us.
They are the deep falls of the Christ of the soul,
of some adorable one that Destiny Blasphemes.
Those bloody blows are the crepitation
of some bread getting burned on us by the oven's door
And the man . . . poor . . . poor!
He turns his eyes around, like
when patting calls us upon our shoulder;
he turns his crazed maddened eyes,
and all of life's experiences become stagnant, like a puddle of guilt, in a daze.
There are such hard blows in life. I don't know
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Metre | 1101111111 110011111011 0101110100 10100101111 1111110011 0010110001011 11010110101 10110111 11011101101 110100111001 1101101 111101111011 00111 1111011 11011011010 111111 0111010000110101011001 1111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 824 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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