Analysis of Dusk
Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)
I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,
and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
| Scheme | ABCDAE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 001110 11111 011 0111110 10101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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