Analysis of I am Not Alone

Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)



The night, it is deserted
from the mountains to the sea.
But I, the one who rocks you,
I am not alone!

The sky, it is deserted
for the moon falls to the sea.
But I, the one who holds you,
I am not alone !

The world, it is deserted.
All flesh is sad you see.
But I, the one who hugs you,
I am not alone!


Scheme abcD abcD abcD
Poetic Form
Metre 0111010 1010101 1101111 11101 0111010 1011101 1101111 11101 0111010 111111 1101111 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 309
Words 69
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. more…

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