Analysis of The Town
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
You said: “I’ll go to another land, to other seaways wandering,
Some other town may yet be found better than this,
Where every effort of mine is a writ of guiltiness;
And my heart seems buried like a corpse. My mind---
How long is it to be in this decay confined?
Wherever I turn, wherever I lift my eyes,
The blackening ruins of my life arise,
here I have spent so many years spoiling and swquandering.”
“You’ll find no other places, no new seas in all your wanderings,
The town will follow you about. You’ll range
In the same streets. In the same suburbs change
From youth to age; inn this same house grow white.
No hope of another town; this is where you’ll always alight.
There is no road to another, there is no ship
To take you there. As here in this small strip
You spoiled your life, the whole earth felt your squanderings.”
Scheme | ABBCCDDA XEEFFGGB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101011101100 110111111011 1100101110111 01111010111 111111010101 010110101111 01001011101 111111011001 1111010111011100 0111010111 0011001101 1111111111 11101011111101 111110101111 1111110111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 841 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 322 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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