Analysis of In the midst of waiting




In the midst of waiting
By:
Mahmoud Jamal Ryan
Translated by:
Hassan Hegazy (Egypt)

Echo captures me in the pockets of time…
Age passes like ships with lofty sails ,
saturated with waiting…
That long blooming time tickles me at the threshold of nostalgia...
Spreading me a palatable perfume…
Taking me back to my early distant childhood
in the swing of a lifetime there...
Where my mother spreads me as a beautiful and eternal dream...
There for a while, dreams, open spaces, and echoes are seasons of waiting…
Igniting me again, perfuming me while I was flaunting meekly…
while my mother is waiting for me to finish
 the rites of joy with my peers …
To rise up as a luminous angel...
To be surrounded by my mother's full shadow
Which was moving towards me, protecting me
 to the end...
But I'm afraid that her descent hug ‘ll fade away…
For fear it will not gather my scattered shreds and my sorrows that haven’t gotten old yet...!


Scheme ABXBX XXAXXXXXACXXXXCXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 001110 1 100110 0101 01110 10101001011 110111101 100110 111011011011010 1010100001 10111110101 0011011 1110111010000101 110111010010110110 01010101011111010 111011011110 0111111 1111010010 11010111011 11100110101 101 1101100111101 111111011010110111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 966
Words 182
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 18
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 362
Words per stanza (avg) 84

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In the midst of waiting By: Mahmoud Jamal Ryan Translated by: Hassan Hegazy (Egypt) it is about waiting and the virtue of mother and her passionate love

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Submitted by Hegazyhhh on November 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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