Analysis of To See Him Again

Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)



Never, never again?
Not on nights filled with quivering stars,
or during dawn's maiden brightness
or afternoons of sacrifice?

Or at the edge of a pale path
that encircles the farmlands,
or upon the rim of a trembling fountain,
whitened by a shimmering moon?

Or beneath the forest's
luxuriant, raveled tresses
where, calling his name,
I was overtaken by the night?
Not in the grotto that returns
the echo of my cry?

Oh no. To see him again --
it would not matter where --
in heaven's deadwater
or inside the boiling vortex,
under serene moons or in bloodless fright!

To be with him...
every springtime and winter,
united in one anguished knot
around his bloody neck!


Scheme AXXX XXXX XXXBXC AXCXB XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 101001 111111001 11011010 101110 11011011 1101 101011010010 1101001 101010 01001010 11011 11100101 1001101 010111 1111101 111101 0101 10101010 1001110101 1111 1001010 01001101 011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 651
Words 119
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 5, 4
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 09, 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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