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
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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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. The García Lorca family eventually dropped objections to the excavation of a potential gravesite near Alfacar. However, no human remains were found. more…

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