Analysis of Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
In the Beirut library, just to the right as you go in,
we buried wise Lysias, the grammarian.
The spot is beautifully chosen.
We put him near those things of his
that he remembers maybe even there:
notes, texts, commentaries, variants,
voluminous studies of Greek idioms.
Also, this way, as we go to the books,
we'll see, we'll honour his tomb.
| Scheme | AABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00011011011110 1101101 01110010 11111111 1101010101 11100100 01001011100 1011111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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