For The Reader's Ear

Jose Asuncion Silva 1865 (Bogotá) – 1896 (Bogotá)



No, that was not passion,
It was the vague tenderness
Inspired by a sickly child,
Lang syne, and moon pale nights.

The spirit sings only
When the heart is moved,
When, shaken by love’s power, it trembles,
Broods, draws back, says not a word.

True passion might in fact
Have been…these pages,
That were they written in happier times
Would have appeared as tears, not verses.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX XXAX XBXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 374
Words 68
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Jose Asuncion Silva

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