Analysis of My Heart Is In The East
Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)
My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west—
How can I find savour in food? How shall it be sweet to me?
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet
Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains?
A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain—
Seeing how precious in mine eyes to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.
Translated by Nina Salaman
| Scheme | XAXXBA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001010011 11111011111111 111101101111 1010101011010101 0111111111101111 101100111010110100100 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 411 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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