Analysis of Negev Infatuation (2003)



when, o when will I be near
My dear, dear sweet and tender mother

Her eyes so soft like a doe
So very far to see will I go.

with a voice that touches my heart.
and brings me to a paradise from which I will never depart.


Scheme XX AA BB
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1111111 111101010 0111101 110111111 10111011 011101011111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 214
Words 48
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on April 21, 2016

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Doug Hall

Even though I was given a Brit Milah (Jewish circumcision) 8 days after I was born in the USA I have never known my Hebrew name. I have created various ones including Ephraim ben Uri and Achael ben Uriel. If anyone knows my Hebrew name from August 1968 in Massachusetts please let me know... more…

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