Analysis of Global Intellectual
kaveh L. Afrasiabi 1968 (United States)
Global Intellectual
Hafez and I grew up together
in Shiraz, centuries apart with
similar poetic ether.
Wandering the world together
as if from the same mother.
We were never actually together
the word reincarnated is better.
He lives in me and we suffer together
humanity's woes and ethnic the other.
We're global intellectuals chanting together
not the salute of flags and land of the mother
we preach the ethos of unity and together
in trenches of peace and harmony with the other.
We renounce war as our destiny together
and throw nationalism to dustbin as we gather,
tall we stand, and humble, together
on shoulders of giants like Tolstoy, Schweitzer, Camus and reverent other
But, wait, Hafez has asked to write a new stanza together
song of world peace and none other.
In you, full of yourself, we enter together
Go fill your heart with love of the other.
Dedication: To Noam Chomsky
Scheme | XAXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100100 100111010 01100011 10001010 10001010 1110110 1010100010 01010110 11010110010 01001010010 110010010010 100111011010 1101011000010 0101101001010 1011110100010 0110001101110 111010010 110110111010010010 111011110110010 11110110 011101110010 1111111010 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 359 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Dedicated to long-time friend Noam Chomsky https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/best/125045/kaveh_afrasiabi#google_vignette
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