Analysis of poème pour samiya




 poème pour samiya
 (poem for samiya)

"procurer moi une tente bédouine"
s'écria samiya
tandis que j'ai passé en revue ses peintures abstraites;
des bébés à Beyrouth et à Sakhnin

parce que ses douleurs étaient un drap de lit
et le plaisir de la poésie
j'écris pour samiya: ses fragments brisés ...
sculpté dans les bâtiments

o! clair de lune, o! adorateurs de la lumière
poésie pour le calme
o! lit de cactus, de la poésie pour votre désir
et un poème pour votre calme!

dans l'épaisseur de la tombée de la nuit
dévoilé le mystère de l'être
une goutte d'huile,
au cœur de la plaine ...

poème pour samiya
 (poem for samiya)

"procure me a bedouin tent",
 exclaimed samiya
 while i reviewed her abstract paintings;
 of babies in beirut and sakhnin.

because her sorrows was a bedsheet
 and some poetry's delight
 i write for samiya:  her broken fragments...
 carved within buildings

o! moonlight, o! worshipers of the light
 poetry for your calm
 o! bed of cactus, poetry for your longing
 and a poem for your calm!

in the thick of dusk
 unveild the mystery of being
 a drop of oil, to the heart of the plain...

©anna laurencio /2014

bedouin--- Bedouin tent are made out of hand spun
 and woven goat hair. The tents are very well adapted
 to desert life and can be packed up and ready to be moved within ...

poem is part metaphor, part political and sacrosanct allegory,
    part imagination of the author salted with the power of art .


Scheme AA bacb dccc efxf dexb AA xacb dgcc gfhf xhb c bxb xx
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1011 01011111 111 11111101111 1111111 111111111 1011111 111111011 11111 1111111111 11101 1111011111111 1111111 1111111111 11011111 111 111111 1111 1011 01101001 011 110100110 11000101 01010101 01101 111101010 10110 111100101 100111 111101001110 0010111 00111 10100110 0111101101 101 1001001111111 01011011101010 11010111101011101 1011100101000100100 10010101010101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,461
Words 254
Sentences 16
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 3, 2
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on August 26, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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