Analysis of Admonition
Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)
Long in the lap of childhood didst thou sleep,
Think how thy youth like chaff did disappear;
Shall life’s sweet Spring forever last? Look up,
Old age approaches ominously near.
Oh shake thou off the world, even as the bird
Shakes off the midnight dew that clogged his wings.
Soar upward, seek redemption from thy guilt
And from the earthly dross that round thee clings.
Draw near to God, His holy angels know,
For whom His bounteous streams of mercy flow.
Translated by Emma Lazarus
Scheme | XAXAXBXBCC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111111 111111101 1111010111 1101010001 11110110101 110111111 1101010111 0101011111 1111110101 111111101 010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 483 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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