Analysis of The Ram
Franz Werfel 1890 (Prague) – 1945 (Manhattan)
(An interpretation of a Jewish face)
You've inherited the great ram's features,
The black-wooled one that bred with Jacob's herds.
You found yourself enough in the desert,
On the thistleweed that bent in the wind.
When the shepherd called, you fine animal,
You came skipping, your high heart pounding.
You pranced and pawed the ground with your hooves,
Which now is your tendency to make jokes.
But when the warrior with his steel honor
Climbed his horse and poked out his lance,
You timidly forced yourself back into your fold
And baaed there quietly and without hope.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010101 1010001110 0111111101 1101010010 10111001 1010111100 111011110 110101111 1111100111 11010011110 11101111 110010110111 0111000011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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