Analysis of Ionian
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Just because we've torn their statues down,
and cast them from their temples,
doesn't for a moment mean the gods are dead.
Land of Ionia, they love you yet,
their spirits still remember you.
When an August morning breaks upon you
a vigour from their lives stabs through your air;
and sometimes an ethereal and youthful form
in swiftest passage, indistinct,
passes up above your hills.
Scheme | XXXX AAXXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111111 0111110 10101010111 1111111 11010101 1110101011 011111111 001101000101 01010001 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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