Analysis of Ode to myself!
Ode to myself!
Sameh Mahgoob
(Egyptian poet )
Translated by :
Hassan Hegazy (Egypt)
Ode to myself!
How many roads have you paved
for the evening and it betrayed you?!
How many desires have you baptized
with the blood of deprivation?
How many friends have you left
in the mouth of death and returned sad ,
leaving some of yourself, there?!
oh, my self!
who have taught you to be cruel
only on yourself?!
You got lost, dismally alone, frustrated,
until you became a jungle
from dew and tears .
| Scheme | A bxbx A xxxxxxx acaxcx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11 01010 0101 01110 111 1101111 101001011 1100101101 1011010 1101111 001110011 1011011 111 11111110 10101 1111000110 01101010 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 508 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 7, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
This poem is written in Arabic , I translated it into English . It is from the free verse . It is for the Egyptian poet Sameh Mahgoob.
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