Analysis of The Bride of the Nile
The Bride of the Nile
Hassan Hegazy Hassan
Egypt
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The hidden is revealed
The berries' leaves are scattered
One of the most beautiful Egyptian maid
made her way to the Nile
To marry herself to the King
Of Kings
after the loss of the dream
The white knight has lost his way,
and has taken another way
from the valley towards the north,
Searching for the white seagulls,
The crocodiles of the Nile used to
tramp under the winter lazy Sun
In the time of barrenness.
When the Nile asked for
his pride every year as usual
The white pigeon on the wedding dress,
has waited for the dream-knight
in vain, but
As the Moon may Knock at the door
Of those who are waiting at the door of hope
Asking for shelter and marriage,
To solve the bad luck
and the black magic
The mills may run
and the age flowers can smile,
The " Clever Hassan " may come
with his handsome face to explode
the spring of love
even without a white horse
or a Legal Maazoun from Al-Azhar
He may write the deal
and declare wedding and joy
So the singer happily chants :
" Please tell the Maazoun of our country to come
And fulfill our happiness and marriage ".
Is this love in the time of Globalization
and the open - door economy?
in the alternation of the Privatization
and the Privatization of the dreams?
we are lost between " The Two Palaces "
we are wasted between " The Two Ages "
we tied waistbands
we fastened bands on our lips
and chanted :
" No voice is louder than the voice of the battle "
The battle of " peace and security "
For the sake of the owner of the palace
Let what is for Caesar to Caesar
As tomorrow's bread can not feed
today's hungry men!
Do not wonder if you find me naked,
On one of the statues of Ramses ǁ
accompanied by the mummies
to my last destiny on the Sun ships
filled with tears
humble with low head
few words are still in my heart
from a message, left from a beloved,
dead, drowned, on his journey,
looking for tomorrow,
on the death steamship,
written with the heart blood,
It says :
"I married you to myself"
Whose letters are defaced
Between the dreams of the present
and the phantasm of tomorrow!
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| Metre | 01101 01101 10 1 010101 0101110 11011000101 101101 11001101 11 1001101 0111111 01100101 10100101 101011 01010111 110010101 00111 10111 1110011100 011010101 1101011 011 10111101 11111010111 10110010 11011 00110 0111 0011011 0100111 11101101 0111 1001011 101011101 11101 0011001 10101001 11011101011 00110100010 11100110010 001010100 001001010010 0010010101 1110101100 1110010110 111 11011101 010 111101011010 0101100100 10110101010 111110110 1011111 01101 1110111110 1110111 01001010 1111001011 111 10111 1111011 101011001 111110 10101 1011 101011 11 110111 110101 01011010 0010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 2,119 |
| Words | 405 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 72 |
| Lines Amount | 72 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,702 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 406 |
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