Analysis of Long Ago
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
I’d like to speak of this memory…
but it’s so faded now…as though nothing is left—
because it was so long ago, in my early adolescent years.
A skin as though of jasmines…
that August evening— was it August?—
I can still just recall the eyes: blue, I think they were…
Ah yes, blue: a sapphire blue.
| Scheme | XXA AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111100 111101111011 0111110101100101 011111 110101110 111110111110 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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