Analysis of Voices
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Ideal and beloved voices
of those who are dead, or of those
who are lost to us like the dead.
Sometimes they speak to us in our dreams;
sometimes in thought the mind hears them.
And with their sound for a moment return
other sounds from the first poetry of our life --
like distant music that dies off in the night.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110 11111111 11111101 0111110101 01010111 0111101001 1011011001101 11010111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 316 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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