Analysis of Priest at the Serapeum
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
My dear old father,
who always loved me the same;
my dear old father I lament
who died the day before yesterday, just before dawn.
Jesus Christ, it is my daily effort
to observe the precepts
of Thy most holy church in all my acts,
in all words, in all thoughts.
And all those who renounce Thee
I shun.-- But now I lament;
I bewail, Christ, for my father
although he was -- a horrible thing to say --
a priest at the accursed Serapeum.
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Metre | 11110 111101 11110101 110101101011 1011111010 10101 1111010111 011011 0111011 1111101 1111110 1110100111 011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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