Analysis of Passing Through
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
The things he timidly imagined as a schoolboy
are openly revealed to him now. And he walks the streets,
stays out all night, gets involved. And as is right (for our kind of art)
his blood -fresh and hot
offers itself to pleasure.
His body is overcome
by forbidden erotic ecstasy; and his young limbs
give in to it completely.
In this way a simple boy
becomes something worth our looking at, for a moment
he too passes through the exalted World of Poetry,
the young sensualist with blood fresh and hot.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100010101 11000111101101 11111010111110111 11101 1001110 110110 11000101000111 1011010 0110101 01101101011010 11101001011100 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 397 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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