Analysis of Tomorrow
Lope de Vega 1562 (Madrid) – 1635 (Madrid)
Lord, what am I, that with unceasing care
Thou did'st seek after me, that Thou did'st wait
Wet with unhealthy dews before my gate,
And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?
Oh, strange delusion, that I did not greet
Thy blest approach, and oh, to heaven how lost
If my ingratitude's unkindly frost
Has chilled the bleeding wounds upon Thy feet.
How oft my guardian angel gently cried,
“Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see
How He persists to knock and wait for thee!”
And oh, how often to that Voice of sorrow,
“Tomorrow we will open,” I replied,
And when the morrow came I answered still “Tomorrow.”
—H. W. Longfellow (translator).
From: Hispanic Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish by English and North American Poets, collected and arranged by Thomas Walsh. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1920.
Scheme | ABBACDDC EFFGEG X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 111110111111 1101010111 0101011101 1101011111 11010111011 11111 1101010111 11110010101 111110111 1101110111 01110111110 011110101 010101110101 110010010 101001001001010101100101001001000111011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 875 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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