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 |
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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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