Analysis of A Longing to Return to the Land of Israel
Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)
My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west.
How can I find savor in food? How shall it be sweet to me?
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet
Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains?
A light thing would it seem to me
to leave all the good things of Spain -
Seeing how precious in mine eyes
to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.
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Metre | 111001010011 111110011111111 111101101111 1010101011010101 01111111 11101111 10110011 1010110100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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