Analysis of Death Sonnet I
Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)
From the icy niche where men placed you
I lower your body to the sunny, poor earth.
They didn't know I too must sleep in it
and dream on the same pillow.
I place you in the sunny ground, with a
mother's sweet care for her napping child,
and the earth will be a soft cradle
when it receives your hurt childlike body.
I scatter bits of earth and rose dust,
and in the moon's airy and blue powder
what is left of you is a prisoner.
I leave singing my lovely revenge.
No hand will reach into the obscure depth
to argue with me over your handful of bones.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011111 110110101011 1101111101 0110110 1110010110 101110101 001110110 110111110 110111011 0001100110 1111110100 111011001 1111010011 11011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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