Analysis of The Sad Mother
Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)
Sleep, sleep, my beloved,
without worry, without fear,
although my soul does not sleep,
although I do not rest.
Sleep, sleep, and in the night
may your whispers be softer
than a leaf of grass,
or the silken fleece of lambs.
May my flesh slumber in you,
my worry, my trembling.
In you, may my eyes close
and my heart sleep.
Scheme | XXAX XXXX XXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 0110011 111111 11111 110001 1110110 10111 1010111 1111001 1101100 011111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 319 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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