Analysis of Days of 1901
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
The exceptional thing about him was
that in spite of all his loose living,
his vast sexual experience,
and the fact that usually
his attitude matched his age,
in spite of this there were moments—
extremely rare, of course—when he gave the impression
that his flesh was almost virginal.
His twenty-nine-year-old beauty,
so tested by sensual pleasure,
would sometimes strangely remind one
of a boy who, somewhat awkwardly, gives
his pure body to love for the first time.
Scheme | XXXAXXBX AXBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010010111 101111110 111000100 00111000 110111 01111010 0101111110010 11111100 11011110 110110010 10110011 1011111001 1110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 469 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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