Theatre of Sidon (400 B.C.)
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Son of an honorable citizen—most important of all, a good-looking
young man of the theatre, amiable in many ways.
I sometimes write highly audacious verses in Greek
and these I circulate—surreptitiously, of course.
O gods, may those puritans who prattle about morals
never see those verses about an exceptional kind of sexual pleasure,
the kind that leads toward a condemned, a barren love.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 65 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
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