Analysis of To Antiochos Epiphanis
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
The young Antiochian said to the king:
'My heart pulses with a precious hope.
The Macedonians, Antiochos Epiphanis,
the Macedonians are back in the great fight.
Let them only win, and I'll give anyone who wants them
the lion and the horses, the coral Pan,
the elegant palace, the gardens of Tyre,
and everything else you've given me, Antiochos Epiphanis.'
The king may have been moved a little,
but then he remembered his father, his brother,
and said nothing: an eavesdropper
might repeat something they'd said.
In any case, as was to be expected,
the terrible defeat came swiftly, at Pydna.
Scheme | ABCDEFGCHIGJKF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 111010101 0111 01110011 1110101110111 01000100101 01001001011 0101110111 011111010 111010110110 011011 1011011 01011111010 01000111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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