Analysis of The Book
Jessie E. Sampter 1883 (New York City) – 1938 (Kibbutz Givat Brenner)
We are the People of the Book,
The written page is our salvation;
This only from the wreck we took
When conquerors crushed our nation.
The Holy Book has been our land,
Our seed, our sowing and our reaping.
How can the stranger understand
What treasure we are keeping!
In shame and poverty we read
The precious page of revelation,
And water with our tears the seed
That recreates our nation.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 0101110010 11010111 110011010 010111101 101101001010 1101001 1101110 01010011 01011010 010110101 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 409 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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