Analysis of Chanukah Thoughts
Morris Rosenfeld 1862 (Russian Empire) – 1923 (New York City)
Not always as you see us now,
Have we been used to weep and sigh,
We too have grasped the sword, I trow,
And seen astonished foemen fly!
We too have rushed into the fray,
For our Belief the battle braved,
And through the spears have fought our way,
And high the flag of vict'ry waved.
But generations go and come,
And suns arise and set in tears,
And we are weakened now and dumb,
Foregone the might of ancient years.
In exile where the wicked reign,
Our courage and our pride expired,
But e'en today each throbbing vein
With Asmonean blood is fired.
Tho' cruel hands with mighty flail
Have threshed us, yet we have not blenched:
The sea of blood could naught prevail,
That fire is burning, still unquenched.
Our fall is great, our fall is real,
(You need but look on us to tell!)
Yet in us lives the old Ideal
Which all the nations shall not quell.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DXDX EXEX FCFC GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1111111 11111101 11110111 0101011 11110101 110010101 010111101 0101111 1010101 01010101 01110101 11011101 0110101 1010010101 111011101 111110 11011101 11111111 01111101 11011011 1011110111 11111111 10110101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 841 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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