AT A DISTANCE…
Your widow life will adorn that day in jewels...
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In the wild charm of the village
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Your arcane profile was a wound;
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Unusual, alarming, it suggested
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The enamel of a precious gem
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Upon a mountainous breast.
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Through the mouth of the open window sighed
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All the orchard in bloom, and the sunny room
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Was itself all the village;
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Remember?... Upon me was projected,
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More mortal than your shadow on the wall,
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Your solemn sorrow of one gone astray...
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Your hands, elongated by grasping toward fate,
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All pale by trying to shroud dreams,
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Seemed to touch me from a distance...
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Your eyes were an infinite path
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And new moons grew out below your eyes;
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In only one kiss we became old...
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—Oh, kiss!... flower of four petals... two of knowledge
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And two illumined by innocence…
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The chalice an abyss, enrapturing and somber.—
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By a miracle of melancholy,
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Marble or brass I shattered in your hand
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Spilling my spirit, like a pomander of essence.
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Your widowed life will adorn that day in jewels...
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My nostalgia has painted your Wagnerian profile
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Upon the tremendous veil of absence.
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Análisis métrico
27
Versos
10.6
Media silábica
287
Sílabas totales