Analysis of Inextinguibles (Immutable)
Delmira Agustini 1886 (Montevideo) – 1914 (Montevideo)
¡Oh, tú que duermes tan hondo que no despiertas!
Milagrosas de vivas, milagrosas de muertas,
Y por muertas y vivas eternamente abiertas,
Alguna noche en duelo yo encuentro tus pupilas
Bajo un trapo de sombra o una blonda de luna.
Bebo en ellas la Calma como en una laguna.
Por hondas, por calladas, por buenas, por tranquilas
Un lecho o una tumba parece cada una.
O you who sleep so deep you cannot wake!
Every night in mourning I come upon your pupils,
Miraculous in life, miraculous in death,
And in life and death eternally open.
Beneath a remnant of shade or silk lace of moon,
I drink their calm as I would a lagoon.
For depth, for silence, for goodness, for peacefulness.
Each one seeming a bed or a tomb.
Scheme | AAA A BBA B XAX X CCA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 1110111 11111011 11111111 111111101110 11111010110010 110111111 11110111010 1111111101 10010101101110 010001010001 00101010010 010101111111 1111111001 111101101100 111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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