Analysis of Shalom
Jessie E. Sampter 1883 (New York City) – 1938 (Kibbutz Givat Brenner)
I saw a picture of a street,
A Jewish street in Palestine,
Where Jewish families like to meet
On Yom-tov, when the day is fine.
The little houses were their own,
The sun, I knew, was shining clear
Because I saw their shadows thrown,
And what they said I tried to hear.
My heart with longing almost broke
Because I heard them: they were home,
And Hebrew was the tongue they spoke,
And one I heard. He said, “Shalom!”
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11010101 0101010 110100111 11110111 01010011 01111101 0111111 01111111 1111011 01111101 01010111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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