Analysis of Hidden
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
From all I've done and all I've said
let them not seek to find who I've been.
An obstacle stood and transformed
my acts and way of my life.
An obstacle stood and stopped me
many a time as I was going to speak.
My most unobserved acts,
and my writitings the most covered --
thence only they will feel me.
But mayhaps it is not worth to spend
this much care and this much effort to know me.
For -- in the more perfect society --
someone else like me created
will certainly appear and freely act.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 111111111 11001001 1101111 11001011 10011111011 1111 0110110 1101111 11111111 11101110111 1001010100 1111010 1100010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 380 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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