Analysis of To Jośe Marίa Palacio
Antonio Machado 1875 (Seville) – 1939 (Collioure)
Palacio, good friend,
is spring there
showing itself on branches of black poplars
by the roads and river? On the steeps
of the high Duero, spring is late,
but so soft and lovely when it comes!
Are there a few new leaves
on the old elms?
The acacias must still be bare,
and the mountain peaks snow-filled.
Oh the massed pinks and whites
of Moncayo, massed up there,
beauty, in the sky of Aragon!
Are there brambles flowering,
among the grey stones,
and white daisies,
in the thin grass?
On the belltowers
the storks will be landing now.
The wheat must be green
and the brown mules working sown furrows,
the people seeding late crops,
in April rain. There’ll be bees,
drunk on rosemary and thyme.
Are the plum trees in flower? Violets still?
There must be hunters about, stealthy,
their decoys under long capes.
Palacio, good friend,
are there nightingales by the river?
When the first lilies,
and the first roses, open,
on a blue evening, climb to Espino,
high Espino, where she is in the earth.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011 111 1001110111 101010101 1011111 111010111 110111 1011 011111 0010111 101101 1010111 10001110 1110100 01011 0110 0011 101 0111101 01111 00111011 0101011 0101111 111001 10110101001 111100110 1101011 010011 1111010 10110 0011010 1011011010 1010111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 987 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 16 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 389 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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