Analysis of A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention
Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)
They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I'm concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100 11111 111101 11110111 10101 11010 111101 111101111 01010101 010010 11110101 1010 1100100101 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 376 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 01, 2023
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