Analysis of In the Tavernas
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
I wallow in the tavernas and brothels of Beirut.
I didn't want to stay
in Alexandria. Tamides left me;
he went off with the Prefect's son to earn himself
a villa on the Nile, a mansion in the city.
It wouldn't have been right for me to stay in Alexandria.
I wallow in the tavernas and brothels of Beirut.
I live a vile life, devoted to cheap debauchery.
The one thing that saves me,
like durable beauty, like perfume
that goes on clinging to my flesh, is this: Tamides,
most exquisite of young men, was mine for two years,
and mine not for a house or a villa on the Nile.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11000010010101 110111 00100111 11110111101 0101010100010 110111111100100 11000010010101 11011010110100 011111 110010101 11110111111 110011111111 0111011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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