Analysis of The Little Mute Boy
Federico García Lorca 1898 (Fuente Vaqueros) – 1936 (Alfacar)
The litle boy was looking for his voice.
(The King of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
I do not want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
so that he may wear my silence
on his little finger.
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
(The captive voice, far away.
Put on a cricket' clothes.)
| Scheme | abCA xbxc CA xx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101110111 01101011 001110 0101110111 111111101 1110111 11111110 111010 001110 0101110111 0101101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 366 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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