Analysis of The last tear
The last tear
Written By:
Abbas Bani Al-Maliki /Iraq
Translated By :
Hassan Hegazy Hassan / Egypt
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My father ……!
When you left
I did not weep for you
But you did!
All-stars descended in your eyes
Increasing your light in the long journey
There is only one Moon in my sky
Afraid of loneliness
In the moment of the world’s coming
into his weak body
Father …..!
I weep you now
Everyday all-stars come from your travel
Descending in my eyes
Forming my vision
Your photo in my travel is teaching me
How to divide my dream into days
Before mirror’s coming out from the day’s sack
I learn how to collect all butterflies,
Whose wings are burned on their trial
to travel to the sky on the dew’s ladders
Father …..!
Your travel has become the date of
my leaving away from this land,
It has become my memory in the spring
, decreasing every day to meet you ….
And restore our home which was robbed by air
and vanished behind a sun that fell in night
losing his memory …
Father …. Father …father !!
Come back…! come back!
Fall like a meteor on my chest
To pat on my back
Steps have exhausted me
Who takes me to lean on him
Routes have taken me away
Not here, not there!
I have never completed
And your Moon has been eaten by
the whales’ dust
Father ….. Father!
F
A
T
H
E
R
Handful … handful
Dust fell down
Blocking the roads of air /time/light
Raining heavily out of my senses
To silence, deeper than the silence
to darkness, heavier than darkness
Handful … handful
Dust fell down
Farewell … to where no farewell,
Fell down ….
To goodbye, where no goodbye …. ??!!
Dust fell down … farewell!
Dust fell down …!
The mourners left except one tear
penetrating all this,
that is pulling me … purifying me
Ah .. it is my father’s tear ….!
f..a..r..e..w..e..l..l
falling … falling
the hole was filled,
became equal
and the clouds remained
on the viewer’ eyes
weeping my father’s trees
…….??
Do I wake one day
Without a coffin?!!!…
***
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 101 0111101 0101 0110110 1 110 111 111111 111 11010011 0101100110 111011011 011100 001010110 011110 10 1111 1011111110 010011 10110 1101101101 110111011 01101011011 111101110 11111110 11010110110 10 110101011 11001111 11011100001 0101001111 00110111111 01001011101 101100 101010 1111 110100111 11111 110101 1111111 1110101 1111 1110010 01111101 011 1010 1 0 1 1 1 1 11 111 10011111 1010011110 110101010 110100110 11 111 11111 11 11111 1111 111 01010111 10011 111011001 1111101 1 1010 0111 0110 00101 10101 101101 1 11111 01010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,917 |
Words | 368 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 11, 11, 19, 18, 17 |
Lines Amount | 81 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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