Analysis of The traveler.
Juan D. Jimenez. 1963 (Habana)
The light in the living room
discovered the arrival of the traveler.
Nobody knew that the stranger,
stiff and cold old man,
before he was a young man,
an erratic migrant
on the roads that do not end
on the edges of the earth
and that his eyes turned off
for the years that accumulated in his gut
they stopped following
his feet tired of searching,
- pilgrim in time, -
the freedom that did not exist
nor in the American dream.
Some came to see him,
comfortable and quiet,
sleeping in his coffin
like yesterday's dead,
like the dead today,
with a wrinkled forehead
and the hair of the color
of winter snow
of that day in January
when he left alone
and almost naked, without saying goodbye
of nobody and imagining
a distant country that would embrace
and he would make love to it
with a bottle of wine,
with a piece of bread
on the table
and the sweat from his hands
tired of everyday work.
In the middle of the gloomy room,
with dull flowers and jasmine,
there was the traveler who returned
to the home where he was born
and a very old mother who wore
the folds of her skin
crossing the continent of life,
she sobbed without having tears
by the presence of her son,
of your last loved one
that he had lived more than 100 years
and buried half of humanity...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100101 010001010100 111010 10111 0111011 101010 1011111 1010101 011111 10110100011 11100 1110110 1001 01011101 10001001 11111 1000010 100110 1101 10101 101010 0011010 1101 1110100 11101 011001101 1100100 010101101 0111111 101011 10111 1010 001111 1011011 001010101 1110010 110100101 1011111 001011011 01101 10010011 1101101 1010101 11111 1111111 010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,318 |
Words | 261 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 993 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 240 |
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It is a poem to an emigrant who returns to his land after dying....
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