Analysis of The Wind, One Brilliant Day
Antonio Machado 1875 (Seville) – 1939 (Collioure)
The wind, one brilliant day, called
to my soul with an odor of jasmine.
'In return for the odor of my jasmine,
I'd like all the odor of your roses.'
'I have no roses; all the flowers
in my garden are dead.'
'Well then, I'll take the withered petals
and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain.'
the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself:
'What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?'
Scheme | XA AX XX XA XX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0111011 1111110110 00110101110 1110101110 111101010 011011 111101010 0010100101010 01101101111 111110101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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