Analysis of The only loser in the battle of the dead
The only loser in the battle of the dead
By :
Ehab El-wardany
Translated by :
Hassan Hegazy Hassan
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I and my body are two companions
With one soul, one memory,
Two feet and two eyes
Going and coming as if
I have turned them into hoopoes
I think neither of my disappointments
Nor my sins
Nor in the daughters of the jinn
When they are rubbing my organs
With umber and camphor
They have seen me on the edge
Waiting for the relief
I am a normal man
And my body is my compassionate woman
Whenever I think about what the world is doing to me
And the friends are around me
Dancing in the void
I summon my mother: "The firewood carrier"
Resorting to my body
I do things I do not like
From the logic of "There is no use " "
And throw all men with a stone
My memory is a pigeon
Its cooing is "The questions "
About a conflict is going on
Between two companions
Me and my body
It is enough for me that
I am one imbrued in my blood
Scheme | XABAB CDXXC XXBCDXX BBDDXX DXXB BCBCDXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 010100010101 1 111 0101 01101 1 1011011010 1111100 11011 1001011 1111011 1110110010 111 10010101 11110110 1101 1111101 101001 110101 011011010010 010110110111011 0011011 10001 110110010100 0101110 1111111 101011111 0111101 11001010 1101010 010101101 011010 10110 1101111 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 942 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 7, 6, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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