Analysis of Tiny Feet
Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)
A child's tiny feet,
Blue, blue with cold,
How can they see and not protect you?
Oh, my God!
Tiny wounded feet,
Bruised all over by pebbles,
Abused by snow and soil!
Man, being blind, ignores
that where you step, you leave
A blossom of bright light,
that where you have placed
your bleeding little soles
a redolent tuberose grows.
Since, however, you walk
through the streets so straight,
you are courageous, without fault.
Child's tiny feet,
Two suffering little gems,
How can the people pass, unseeing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 1111 111101011 111 10101 1110110 011101 110101 111111 010111 11111 110101 010011 11011 10111 11010011 1101 1100101 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 6, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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