Analysis of My dear sister
My dear sister Symbol of giving and sacrifice 1975 (Suez)
They say:
We don't know from which country he came
Always works without pay
And speaks by sign
This sheikh wanders the streets
With bare feet
And at noon he takes refuge in the shadow of the building
From the balcony, a girl with a green scarf appears
Her eyes are as true as the eyes of the prophecy of the righteous
And her heart is a wet nest from Dar es Salaam
Her voice descends softly to kiss the head of the seated person.
Father, come up
On the staircase
He is leaning on his lofty knees in pain
Two feet like camel sandal climb the stairs
....
A Pan filled with rose water is behind the apartment door
And her hands enough moist and soft
Prowling between the toes and the legs
Like a mother cat's tongue
And on the chair
A sandal from the land of pilgrims is waiting for its owner
And a bowl of abundant sustenance... And a drink
Scheme | ABACDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 111111011 11011 0111 111001 111 01111100011010 1010001101101 01111101101001010 001101111101 0101101101101010 1011 101 11101110101 1111010101 1 011111010100101 00101101 100101001 101011 0101 0101011101101110 0011010100001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 662 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 164 |
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My dear sister Symbol of giving and sacrifice
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Written on January 10, 2022
Submitted by mahmoud.goma on January 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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