Analysis of Take Me Under Your Wing
Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1873 (Ivnitsa, Volhynian Governorate) – 1934 (Vienna)
Take me under your wing,
be my mother, my sister.
Take my head to your breast,
my banished prayers to your nest.
One merciful twilight hour,
hear my pain, bend your head.
They say there is youth in the world.
Where has my youth fled?
Listen! another secret:
I have been seared by a flame.
They say there is love in the world.
How do we know love’s name?
I was deceived by the stars.
There was a dream; it passed.
I have nothing at all in the world,
nothing but a vast waste.
Take me under your wing,
be my mother, my sister.
Take my head to your breast,
my banished prayers to your nest.
Scheme | ABCC bded xfef xxex ABCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (25%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 111011 1110110 111111 1101111 1100110 111111 11111001 11111 1001010 1111101 11111001 111111 1101101 110111 111011001 101011 111011 1110110 111111 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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