Analysis of Passageways

Antonio Machado 1875 (Seville) – 1939 (Collioure)



Who set, between those rocks like cinder,
to show the honey of dream,
that golden broom,
those blue rosemaries?
Who painted the purple mountains
and the saffron, sunset sky?
The hermitage, the beehives,
the cleft of the river
the endless rolling water deep in rocks,
the pale-green of new fields,
all of it, even the white and pink
under the almond trees!


Scheme ABCDDEDADDFD
Poetic Form
Metre 110111110 1101011 1101 111 11001010 001011 010001 011010 0101010101 011111 111100101 100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 352
Words 64
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 280
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Antonio Machado

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. more…

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