Analysis of Being
Suleiman al-fulayyih 1950 (Hammad desert)
Till when will we continue
to engage in this madness?
When will we strive, my friend, to be
not as others imagine us
but as we wish ourselves
to be?
| Scheme | ABCBDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 1010110 11111111 11100101 1111001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on January 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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