Analysis of Smaragdos Margara-Claviceps purpura

Carlos Martinez Rivas 1924 (Guatemala) – 1998 (Managua)



Con una aguja
Con hilo blanco,
Con la carrucha
En tu regazo

Cóseme el flanco
La herida aguda
La negra llaga
De mi costado
Mi desventura.

Tu sola bruja
Con tus puntadas
Lentas y largas
De hábil sutura
Ciégala

Muda boca
Cerrada
Por amor
Nunca.


Scheme ABXC BDBDE ACCEF FDEB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 11010 111 111 1111 111 111 111 11 1101 111 111 1111 110 110 1 110 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 230
Words 45
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 4
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Modified on May 03, 2023

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Carlos Martinez Rivas

Carlos Martínez Rivas was born on October 12, 1924 in Puerto de Ocoz, Guatemala, where his parents were vacationing.[1] From an early age, Martinez Rivas showed a special talent for poetry. He won his first poetry competition at age 16 and at age 18, while still a high school student at Colegio Centro-América, a Jesuit school in Managua he wrote "El paraiso recobrado" which was published in 1944. Octavio Paz say about him:“Another young man given over to poetry; a new, true poet—and the sure promise of a great poet; and the battle against the dawn and its obscene noises; and the start of each day, defenseless against the enemy language. To start and start again. The terrible and renewed prophecy of Rimbaud: ‘Other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the other has fallen’. Carlos Martínez Rivas is one of them.” Octavio Paz in “Legítima defensa” [Legitimate defense], 1954, included in Las peras del olmo [The pears of the elm] more…

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