Analysis of Date d’anniversaire.
Angel Acosta 1958 (Cuba)
The thirteenth of may
some carnations spawn doves with moons
Farewells are bloody mirrors of feelings
The death of the sun awakens the eyes of the night
That saliva is joy of sorrows
A dog yawns over the body of destiny
Someone dies like ocean on the maps
Living in pieces covers unfinished desires
There is metamorphosis from light to providence
And maybe
between twelve and one minute at night
already about fourteen
someone concludes the stubborn novel
That orphan routine is a smokeless pipe and a chair for memories
The past drags the opportunity of the present
A verse follows the next carded hair
The uninhabited produces sores that never scab
That fourteenth of May in old world
when… past the middle of the twentieth century
bided by mandrakes of captive passions
I was born, (prematurely outlawed)
life unraveled present even in the absent.
(In hours I will be seventy years old and this poem belongs to the unpublished Zona Reservada notebook)
Scheme | XXXAXBXXXBAXXXCXXXBXXC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 10101111 111010110 0110101001101 101011110 011100101100 11110101 1001010010010 110100111100 010 011011011 0100111 10101010 11001101010011100 011001001010 011001101 0010001011101 11111011 1101010100100 11111010 1110101 101010100010 01011110011011001100101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 958 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 393 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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