Analysis of Awake, My Fair
Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)
Awake, my fair, my love, awake,
So that I may gaze upon you!
And if one is eager to kiss your lips,
In your dreams this do you see,
Lo, then I myself of your dream
The interpreter will be.
| Scheme | ABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101 11111011 0111101111 0111111 1111111 0010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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