Analysis of An eternal over-lasting kingdom
An eternal over-lasting kingdom
By : Al-Sayed Hassan
Translated into English:
Hassan Hegazy (Egypt)
When I am all alone,
Besieged by my heavens,
a sky of nostalgia surprises me,
Sitting with me, comforting me,
Opening the cache of my memories,
Preparing childhood to me.
I run happily,
having fun with my childhood,
Launching me a star into the high skies,
alone in my orbit ,
I have my own time,
my own voice,
my feeling and my glory.
I have my own loyalties.
I belong to a homeland, formed from deep certainty,
Without night patrols searching in my imagination,
Without screens encouraging my delusion,
Without yellow newspapers scattering me
in false letters,
Without police stations burying my humming,
Without the voice of the crowd
to run madly over my voice
or my free will,
Without language misinterpreting my silence,
Without the conspiracy clouds seducing me,
Without falsehood restricting my philosophies.
When I'm alone by myself,
my stars come back happily to me,
spending all night with me,
surrounding me, dialoguing with me,
igniting the hall of my nights
Coming back to me singing in her pure dreams,
foretelling the soul of the days about me,
writing in the conscience of the universe
that I asked God for an eternal kingdom
that will not perish.
So, poetry has come to be:
“My kingdom, my miracle
and my own tragedy.”
Scheme | AXBX XXCCDCCXXXXECDCFFCXXXEXXCDXCCCXXCXABCXC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101010 11101 0100110 01110 111101 011110 0110100101 10111001 1000111100 010111 11100 101111 1010101011 010110 11111 111 1100110 1111100 101101111100 0110110010010 01101001010 0110101001 0110 010110100110 0101101 11101011 1111 011000100110 010010010101 01101010100 110111 111110011 101111 0101111 01001111 10111100011 01001101011 1000101010 11111101010 11110 11001111 1101100 011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,355 |
Words | 264 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 39 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 532 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
About this poem
An eternal over-lasting kingdom By : Al-Sayed Hassan Translated into English: Hassan Hegazy (Egypt)
Font size:
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"An eternal over-lasting kingdom" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/124949/an-eternal-over-lasting-kingdom>.
Discuss this Al-Sayed Hassan poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In