Analysis of In The Street
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
His attractive face a bit pale,
his brown eyes looking tired, dazed,
twenty-five years old but could be taken for twenty,
with something of the artist in the way he dresses
-the colour of his tie, shape of his collar
he drifts aimlessly down the street,
as though still hypnotized by the illicit pleasure,
the very illicit pleasure he's just experienced.
Scheme | ABCDEFEG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011 11110101 1011111110110 1101010001110 0111111110 11100101 111101001010 01001010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 355 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 283 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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