Analysis of Do These Tears Know?
Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)
Do these tears know who made them fall?
Do these hearts know who made them recoil?
They recoiled when their shining light sank into the earth,
and the clods of earth knew not what they hold.
They hold a princely man,
a good man, blameless, upright,
a God-fearing man, discreet and wise.
translated by T. Carmi
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 111111101 1011110110101 0011111111 110101 0111001 011010101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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