I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown
Delmira Agustini 1886 (Montevideo) – 1914 (Montevideo)
I live, I die, I burn, I drown
I endure at once chill and cold
Life is at once too soft and too hard
I have sore troubles mingled with joys
Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry
And in pleasure many a grief endure
My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged
All at once I dry up and grow green
Thus I suffer love's inconstancies
And when I think the pain is most intense
Without thinking, it is gone again.
Then when I feel my joys certain
And my hour of greatest delight arrived
I find my pain beginning all over once again.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Scheme | XXXA XXXX AXB XXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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