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 |
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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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