Analysis of Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
Federico García Lorca 1898 (Fuente Vaqueros) – 1936 (Alfacar)
Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.
I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.
If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,
never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111010 111111001 01001111 1011111 1101110111 011011101 110110111 1011101 11111010 111111101 111010101110 101111111 0010101110 11110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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