At the Café Door
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Something they said beside me
made me look toward the café door,
and I saw that lovely body which seemed
as though Eros in his mastery had fashioned it,
joyfully shaping its well-formed limbs,
molding its tall build,
shaping its face tenderly,
and leaving, with a touch of the fingers,
a particular nuance on the brow, the eyes, the lips.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFAGH |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 339 |
Words | 62 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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