Analysis of Sophist Leaving Syria
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Eminent sophist, now that you are leaving Syria
with plans to write a book about Antioch,
it's worth your mentioning Mevis in your work—
the famous Mevis, unquestionably
the best looking, the most adored young man
in all Antioch. No one of the others
living his kind of life, no one of them gets paid
what he gets paid. To have Mevis
just for two or three days, they often give
as much as a hundred staters. I said in Antioch;
but in Alexandria as well, in fact in Rome even,
you can't find a young man as attractive as Mevis.
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Metre | 1001111110100 1111010110 1111001011 010101000 0110010111 0110111010 101111111111 1111111 1111111101 1110101011010 10010011010110 111011101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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