Analysis of The Meeting Of The Stars
Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)
The stars of the world have joined to-day.
‘Mid the host on high none are found like these.
The Pleiads desire such unity,
For no breath can come between them.
The star of the east hath come to the west;
He hath found the sun among the daughters thereof.
He hath set up a bower of thick branches;
He hath made of them a tent for the sun.
Translated by Nina Salaman
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011111 1011111111 0100101100 11111011 0110111101 11101010101 11110101110 1111101101 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 367 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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