Analysis of The Diameter Of The Bomb

Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)



The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered
and one graveyard. But the young woman
who was buried in the city she came from,
at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,
enlarges the circle considerably,
and the solitary man mourning her death
at the distant shores of a country far across the sea
includes the entire world in the circle.
And I won't even mention the crying of orphans
that reaches up to the throne of God and
beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.


Scheme AABCDEFAGHGCIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 00100101110100 000100110101011010 111001010 0011001010 1101110110 01110110 11100010111 1010111010010 01001001000 0010011001 10101101010101 01001010010 0111010010110 1101101110 0110010111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 646
Words 121
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 528
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Modified on April 12, 2023

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Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. more…

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