Analysis of Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Lines written by young Temethos, madly in love.
The tile: 'Emonidis' -the favourite
of Antiochos Epiphanis; a very good-looking young man
from Samosata. But if the lines come out
ardent, full of feeling, it's because Emonidis
(belonging to another, much older time:
the 137th year of the Greek kingdom,
maybe a bit earlier) is in the poem
merely as a name -a suitable one nevertheless.
The poem gives voice to the love Temethos feels,
a beautiful kind of love, worthy of him.
We the initiated
his intimate friends- we the initiated
know about whom those lines were written.
The unsuspecting Antiochians read simply 'Emonidis'.
Scheme | ABCBDEFFDDGBBHD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111001 01101 11101011011 11110111 1011101011 01010101101 011110110 100110010010 1010101001001 0101110111 01001111011 100100 11001100100 101111010 001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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