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


Scheme XXXXXXXA A
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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Yehudah HaLevi

Judah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in the Holy Land in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. more…

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