Analysis of El Nudo (The Knot )
Delmira Agustini 1886 (Montevideo) – 1914 (Montevideo)
Su idilio fue una larga sonrisa a cuatro labios...
En el regazo cálido de rubia primavera
Amáronse talmente que entre sus dedos sabios
Palpitó la divina forma de la Quimera.
En los palacios fúlgidos de las tardes en calma
Hablábanse un lenguaje sentido como un lloro,
Y se besaban hondo hasta morderse el alma!...
Las horas deshojáronse como flores de oro,
Y el Destino interpuso sus dos manos heladas...
Ah! los cuerpos cedieron, mas las almas trenzadas
Son el más intrincado nudo que nunca fue...
En lucha con sus locos enredos sobrehumanos
Las Furias de la vida se rompieron las manos
Y fatigó sus dedos supremos Ananké...
Their idyll was a smile of four lips...
In the warm lap of blond spring
They loved such that between their wise fingers
the divine form of Chimera trembled.
In the glimmering palaces of quiet afternoons
They spoke in a language heartfelt as weeping,
And they kissed each other deeply, biting the soul!
The hours fluttered away like petals of gold,
Then Fate interposed its two icy hands...
Ah! the bodies yielded, but tangled souls
Are the most intricate knot that never unfolds...
In strife with its mad superhuman entanglements,
Life’s Furies rent their coupled hands
And wearied your powerful fingers, Ananké*...
Scheme | ABAB BBBX AAXAAC ACAX ACXX AAAAAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011011 11111011000010 111110111 11110111 11001011111110 111111011 11110101110 1111101110 111111101 111111101 1111110111 1111111 11111011110 111111 110101111 0011111 1111011110 0011101010 0010010011001 1100101110 011110101001 010100111011 11111101 1010101101 101100111001 011110100100 1111101 0101100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,315 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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