Analysis of Melancholy Of Jason Kleander, Poet In Kommagini, A.D. 595
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
The aging of my body and my beauty
is a wound from a merciless knife.
I’m not resigned to it at all.
I turn to you, Art of Poetry,
because you have a kind of knowledge about drugs:
attempts to numb the pain, in Imagination and Language.
It is wound from a merciless knife.
Bring your drugs, Art of Poetry—
they numb the wound at least for a little while.
| Scheme | ABXAXX BAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011100110 101101001 11011111 111111100 011101110011 01110100010010 111101001 11111100 11011110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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