Analysis of Animal Cansado

Alfonsina Storni 1892 (Sala Capriasca) – 1938 (Mar del Plata)



Quiero un amor feroz de garra y diente
Que me asalte a traición a pleno día
Y que sofoque esta soberbia mía
este orgullo de ser todo pudiente.

Quiero un amor feroz de garra y diente
Que en carne viva inicie mi sangría
A ver si acaba esta melancolía
Que me corrompe el alma lentamente.

Quiero un amor que sea una tormenta
Que todo rompe y lo renueva todo
Porque vigor profundo lo alimenta.

Que pueda reanimarse allí mi lodo,
Mi pobre lodo de animal cansado
Por viejas sendas de rodar hastiado.


Scheme Abba Abba aaa aaa
Poetic Form
Metre 111011111 1110110110 11110110 111111 111011111 111101110 01111010 1111101 1110111010 1111111 110111 111111 11111001 111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 493
Words 94
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Alfonsina Storni

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