Analysis of From River to the Sea

kaveh L. Afrasiabi 1968 (United States)



Palestinians.  The river that you have under your tongue,
will never dry up, no amount of white phosphorus and mega bombs will do the job.
They keep hurting you, don't seek revenge, just sit by the river and soon
you'll see the corpses of their extermination dreams float by.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 01000101111011 110111011110001011101 11101110111101001 11010110010111
Characters 275
Words 51
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 54
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 217
Words per stanza (avg) 50

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originally posted on poetrysoup.com, reframes a famous but controversial line

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Written on November 12, 2023

Submitted by faraneh2 on December 26, 2023

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kaveh L. Afrasiabi

political science professor and author of more than 30 books, both scholarly and fiction including 7 poetry books, lives in Boston more…

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