Analysis of Homage To Life
Jules Supervielle 1884 (Montevideo) – 1960 (Paris)
It’s good to have chosen
A living home
And housed time
In a ceaseless heart
And seen my hands
Alight on the world,
As on an apple
In a little garden,
To have loved the earth,
The moon and the sun
Like old friends
Who have no equals,
And to have committed
The world to memory
Like a bright horseman
To his black steed,
To have given a face
To these words — woman, children,
And to have been a shore
For the wandering continents
And to have come upon the soul
With tiny strokes of the oars,
For it is scared away
By a brusque approach.
It is beautiful to have known
The shade under the leaves,
And to have felt age
Creep over the naked body,
And have accompanied pain
Of black blood in our veins,
And gilded its silence
With the star, Patience,
And to have all these words
Moving around in the head,
To choose the least beautiful of them
And let them have a ball,
To have felt life,
Hurried and ill loved,
And locked it up
In this poetry.
Scheme | ABCDEFGAHAIJKLAMNAOPQRSTUVWLXYZZ1 2 3 4 5 6 7 L |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111110 0101 011 00101 0111 01101 11110 001010 11101 01001 111 11110 011010 011100 10110 1111 111001 1111010 011101 10100100 01110101 1101101 111101 10101 11100111 011001 01111 11001010 0101001 1110101 010110 10110 011111 1001001 110110011 011101 1111 10011 0111 01100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 948 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 731 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 185 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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