Analysis of Black Stone on Top of a White Stone

Cesar Vallejo 1892 (Santiago de Chuco Province) – 1938 (Paris)



I shall die in Paris, in a rainstorm,
On a day I already remember.
I shall die in Paris-- it does not bother me--
Doubtless on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.

It shall be a Thursday, because today, Thursday
As I put down these lines, I have set my shoulders
To the evil. Never like today have I turned,
And headed my whole journey to the ways where I am alone.

César Vallejo is dead. They struck him,
All of them, though he did nothing to them,
They hit him hard with a stick and hard also
With the end of a rope. Witnesses are: the Thursdays,
The shoulder bones, the loneliness, the rain, and the roads...


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111010001 1011010010 111010111101 10101101010 1110101011 111111111110 101010101111 010111010111101 1101011111 1111111011 11111010110 1011011001010 0101010001001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 606
Words 120
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Cesar Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. more…

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