Analysis of Inextinguibles (Immutable)

Delmira Agustini 1886 (Montevideo) – 1914 (Montevideo)



¡Oh, tú que duermes tan hondo que no despiertas!
Milagrosas de vivas, milagrosas de muertas,
Y por muertas y vivas eternamente abiertas,

Alguna noche en duelo yo encuentro tus pupilas

Bajo un trapo de sombra o una blonda de luna.
Bebo en ellas la Calma como en una laguna.
Por hondas, por calladas, por buenas, por tranquilas

Un lecho o una tumba parece cada una.

O you who sleep so deep you cannot wake!
Every night in mourning I come upon your pupils,
Miraculous in life, miraculous in death,

And in life and death eternally open.

Beneath a remnant of shade or silk lace of moon,
I drink their calm as I would a lagoon.
For depth, for silence, for goodness, for peacefulness.

Each one seeming a bed or a tomb.


Scheme AAA A BBA B XAX X CCA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 1110111 11111011 11111111 111111101110 11111010110010 110111111 11110111010 1111111101 10010101101110 010001010001 00101010010 010101111111 1111111001 111101101100 111001101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 764
Words 135
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Delmira Agustini

Delmira Agustini, a Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century. more…

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