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 |
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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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