Analysis of Sad Song
Do you hear me, you who are
So far away from me, my dear?
Do you hear me crying aloud,
Wishing you were well, wishing you were near?
The world is vast, its ways diverse,
Brief meetings, partings long,
Men, with unsure feet, post on never to return, too weak
To find the treasure they have lost.
My last day drawing near
Of the tears of separation
I will await you until
my life leaves
as Rahel did her beloved.
Scheme | XAXA XXXXAXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11011111 11111001 1010110101 01111101 11011 11011111010111 11010111 111101 1011010 1101101 111 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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