Analysis of Has My Heart Gone To Sleep?
Antonio Machado 1875 (Seville) – 1939 (Collioure)
Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
scoops turning empty,
only shadow inside?
No, my heart is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
Not asleep, not dreaming—
its eyes are opened wide
watching distant signals, listening
on the rim of vast silence.
| Scheme | AXXXXB AXCBCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 101111 11001 10111 11010 10101 1111101 1101101 101110 111101 101010100 1011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 320 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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