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 |
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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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