Analysis of Monotony
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
One monotonous day is followed
by another monotonous, identical day. The same
things will happen, they will happen again --
the same moments find us and leave us.
A month passes and ushers in another month.
One easily guesses the coming events;
they are the boring ones of yesterday.
And the morrow ends up not resembling a morrow anymore.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001110 101001000100101 1110111001 011011011 011001000101 11001001001 110101110 0010111010001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 340 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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