Analysis of The Jewish Year
Jessie E. Sampter 1883 (New York City) – 1938 (Kibbutz Givat Brenner)
Our year begins with burnished leaves,
That flame in frost and rime,
With purple grapes and golden sheaves
In harvest time.
Our year begins with biting cold,
With winds and storms and rain;
The new year of the Jew grows old
In strife and pain.
When others say the year has died,
We say the year is new,
And we arise with power and pride
To prove it true.
For we begin where others end,
And fight where others yield;
And all the year we work and tend
Our harvest field.
And after days of stormy rain
And days of drought and heat,
When those that toiled have reaped their grain,
And all’s complete.
Oh then, when God has kept his word,
In peace we end our year.
Our fruit is certain from the Lord.
We shall not fear.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH DIDI XJXJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101011101 110101 11010101 0101 101011101 110101 01110111 0101 11010111 110111 010111001 1111 11011101 011101 01011101 10101 01011101 011101 11111111 0101 11111111 0111101 101110101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 753 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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