Adam
Federico García Lorca 1898 (Fuente Vaqueros) – 1936 (Alfacar)
A tree of blood soaks the morning
where the newborn woman groans.
Her voice leaves glass in the wound
and on the panes, a diagram of bone.
The coming light establishes and wins
white limits of a fable that forgets
the tumult of veins in flight
toward the dim cool of the apple.
Adam dreams in the fever of the clay
of a child who comes galloping
through the double pulse of his cheek.
But a dark other Adam is dreaming
a neuter moon of seedless stone
where the child of light will burn.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXB XXXX XAX ABX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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