Analysis of Imenos
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
'... to be cherished even more
s a sensual pleasure achieved morbidly, corruptingly-
it rarely finds the body able to feel what it requires-
that morbidly, corruptingly, creates
an erotic intensity which health cannot know ....'
Extract from a letter
written by young Imenos (from a patrician family)
notorious in Syracuse for his debauchery
in the debauched times of Michael the Third.
Scheme | ABCDEFBGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1010010011001 1101010101111010 1100101 1010010011101 11010 1011110010100 0100010110100 001111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 386 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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