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
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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Cesar Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. more…

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