Analysis of Paris, October 1936
Cesar Vallejo 1892 (Santiago de Chuco Province) – 1938 (Paris)
From all of this I am the only one who leaves.
From this bench I go away, from my pants,
from my great situation, from my actions,
from my number split side to side,
from all of this I am the only one who leaves.
From the Champs Elysées or as the strange
alley of the Moon makes a turn,
my death goes away, my cradle leaves,
and, surrounded by people, alone, cut loose,
my human resemblance turns around
and dispatches its shadows one by one.
And I move away from everything, since everything
remains to create my alibi:
my shoe, its eyelet, as well as its mud
and even the bend in the elbow
of my own buttoned shirt.
Scheme | AxxxA xxaxxx xxxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111010111 1111101111 1110101110 11101111 111111010111 101111101 10101101 111011101 00101100111 110010101 001011111 01101110110 01101110 1111011111 01001001 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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