Analysis of Hanukkah Lights
I kindled my eight little candles,
My Hanukkah candles, and lo!
Fair visions and dreams half-forgotten
Were rising of years long ago.
I musingly gazed at my candles;
Meseemed in their quivering flames
In golden, in fiery letters
I read the old, glorious names;
The names of our heroes immortal,
The noble, the brave, and the true;
A battlefield saw I in vision,
Where many were conquered by few;
And mute lay the Syrian army,
Judea’s proud foe, in the field;
And Judas, the brave Maccabaeus,
I saw in his helmet and shield.
His eyes shone like bright stars of heaven,
Like music resounded his voice:
“Brave comrades, we fought and we conquered,
Now let us in God’s name rejoice!
“We conquered; but know, my brave comrades,
No triumph is due to the sword;
Remember our motto and watchword,
‘For the people and towns of the Lord.’”
He spoke, and from all the four corners
An echo repeated each word;
The woods and the mountains re-echoed:
“For the people and towns of the Lord.”
And swiftly the message spread, calling:
“Judea, Judea is free!
Rekindled the lamp in the Temple,
Rekindled each bosom with glee!”
* * * * * * * * *
My Hanukkah candles soon flickered,
Around me was darkness of night;
But deep in my soul I felt shining
A heavenly, wonderful light.
Scheme | abcb aded fgcg hiai cjkj xlkL ekxL mhfh knmn |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111010 11001001 110011010 01011101 1111110 1011001 010010010 11011001 0111010010 01001001 01011010 11001011 011010010 111001 010011 11011001 111111110 110111 11110110 11101101 11011111 11011101 010101001 101001101 110110110 11001011 010010110 101001101 010010110 01001011 010010010 01011011 1 110010110 01111011 110111110 01001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,368 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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