Analysis of Weeping
Federico García Lorca 1898 (Fuente Vaqueros) – 1936 (Alfacar)
Weeping,
I go down the street
Grotesque, without solution
With the sadness of Cyrano
And Quixote.
Redeeming
Infinite impossiblities
With the rhythm of the clock.
Scheme | AXXXX AXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 11101 0101010 10101010 0010 010 1001 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 162 |
Words | 27 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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