Analysis of Throw Yourself Like Seed
Miguel de Unamuno 1864 (Bilbao) – 1936 (Salamanca)
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,
The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work; start there, turn to the work.
Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
Don’t turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do not let the past weigh down your motion.
Leave what’s alive in the furrow, what’s dead in yourself,
For life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100010110 10111010111 11011111101 0111111010111010 1111010111101 111010100111 1111110010111 101111101 10111111001111 1111111111111 01110111110 1001001001001 11111001110111 111111101111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 751 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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