Analysis of In the Boring Village
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
In the boring village where he works—
clerk in a textile shop, very young—
and where he's waiting out the two or three months ahead,
another two or three months until business falls off
so he can leave for the city and plunge headlong
into its action, its entertainment;
in the boring village where he's waiting out the time—
he goes to bed tonight full of sexual longing,
all his youth on fire with the body's passion,
his lovely youth given over to a fine intensity.
And in his sleep pleasure comes to him;
in his sleep he sees and has the figure, the flesh he longed for...
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Metre | 001010111 10011101 0111010111101 0101111011011 11111010011 011101010 0010101110101 1111011110010 111110101010 110110101010100 001110111 011110101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 451 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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