Analysis of I Am Going to Sleep
Alfonsina Storni 1892 (Sala Capriasca) – 1938 (Mar del Plata)
Teeth of flowers, hairnet of dew,
hands of herbs, you, perfect wet nurse,
prepare the earthly sheets for me
and the down quilt of weeded moss.
I am going to sleep, my nurse, put me to bed.
Set a lamp at my headboard;
a constellation; whatever you like;
all are good: lower it a bit.
Leave me alone: you hear the buds breaking through . . .
a celestial foot rocks you from above
and a bird traces a pattern for you
so you'll forget . . . Thank you. Oh, one request:
if he telephones again
tell him not to keep trying for I have left . . .
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 11110111 01010111 00111101 111011111111 101111 00101011 11110101 11011101101 0010111101 0011001011 1101111101 111001 11111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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