Analysis of A Precise Woman

Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)



A precise woman with a short haircut brings order
to my thoughts and my dresser drawers,
moves feelings around like furniture
into a new arrangement.
A woman whose body is cinched at the waist and firmly divided
into upper and lower,
with weather-forecast eyes
of shatterproof glass.
Even her cries of passion follow a certain order,
one after the other:
tame dove, then wild dove,
then peacock, wounded peacock, peacock, peacock,
the wild dove, tame dove, dove dove
thrush, thrush, thrush.

A precise woman: on the bedroom carpet her shoes always point away from the bed.
(My own shoes point toward it.)


Scheme AXAXXAXXAABXBX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 001101011110 11101101 110011100 0101010 01011011101010010 0110010 11011 1101 10011101001010 110010 11111 1110111 0111111 111 0011010110011101101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 591
Words 104
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 240
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. more…

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