Analysis of Outside the House
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Walking yesterday in an outlying neighbourhood,
I went by the house
I used to go to when I was very young.
There Eros with his wonderful power
laid hold of my body.
And yesterday
when I walked down the old road,
shops, pavement, stones,
walls and balconies and windows-
all were suddenly made beautiful by the spell of love:
there was nothing ugly left there.
And as I stood staring at the door,
stood lingering outside the house,
my whole being radiated
the sensual passion stored up inside me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001101 11101 11111111101 1101110010 111110 010 1111011 1101 10100010 10100110010111 11101011 011110101 11001101 1110100 01001011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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