Analysis of I´ve Looked So Much…
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
I’ve looked on beauty so much
that my vision overflows with it.
The body’s lines. Red lips. Sensual limbs.
Hair as though stolen from Greek statues,
always lovely, even uncombed,
and falling slightly over pale foreheads.
Figures of love, as my poetry desired them
…in the nights when I was young,
encountered secretly in those nights.
| Scheme | XA XXAXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 11101011 011111001 11110111 110101 010101011 1011111000101 0011111 010100011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 340 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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