Analysis of An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion
Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)
An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion
And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy.
An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father
Both in their temporary failure.
Our two voices met above
The Sultan's Pool in the valley between us.
Neither of us wants the boy or the goat
To get caught in the wheels
Of the "Had Gadya" machine.
Afterward we found them among the bushes,
And our voices came back inside us
Laughing and crying.
Searching for a goat or for a child has always been
The beginning of a new religion in these mountains.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101101111110 0101001111011101 11010001010 10110010 10110101 01010010011 1011101101 111001 101101 10011101010 0101011011 10010 101011101111 00101010100110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 545 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 26, 2023
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