Analysis of Explosión (Explosion)
Delmira Agustini 1886 (Montevideo) – 1914 (Montevideo)
Si la vida es amor, bendita sea!
Quiero más vida para amar! Hoy siento
Que no valen mil años de la idea
Lo que un minuto azul del sentimiento.
Mi corazon moria triste y lento…
Hoy abre en luz como una flor febea;
La vida brota como un mar violento
Donde la mano del amor golpea!
Hoy partio hacia la noche, triste, fría
Rotas las alas mi melancolía;
Como una vieja mancha de dolor
En la sombra lejana se deslíe…
Mi vida toda canta, besa, ríe!
Mi vida toda es una boca en flor!
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English
If life were love, how blessed it would be!
I want more life so to love! Now I feel
A thousand years of ideas are not worth
One blue minute of sentiment.
My heart was dying slowly, sadly…
Now it opens like a Phoebean flower:
Life rushes forth like a turbulent sea
Whipped by the hand of love.
My sorrow flies into the night, sad, cold
With its broken wings;
Like an old scar that continues to ache–
In the distant shade it dissolves…
All my life sings, kisses, laughs!
All my life is a flowering mouth!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011011 11110100111 11110111010 1111111 1101001110 1111101011 110110111 11101101 11111110 1101110 101011011 1111111 110101111 110101101011 1 110 110111111 1111111111 01011010111 11101100 111101010 111010110 1101101001 110111 1101010111 11101 1111101011 00101101 1111101 111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,081 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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