Analysis of Tomb of Ignatos
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Here I'm not the Kleon famous in Alexandria
(where they're not easily dazzled)
for my marvelous houses, my gardens,
for my horses and chariots,
for the jewels and silks I wore.
Far from it—here I'm not that Kleon:
his twenty-eight years are to be wiped out.
I'm Ignatios, lector, who came to his senses very late;
but even so, in that way I lived ten happy months
in the peace, the security of Christ.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111011000100 11110010 1110010110 11100100 10100111 11111111 1101111111 1110111110101 1101011111101 0010010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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