Analysis of My Heart Is in the East
Judah Halevi 1075 (Toledo) – 1141 (Jerusalem)
My heart is in the east,
and I am in the distant west.
How can I taste what I eat,
and how can it be sweet?
How can I fulfill by vows and oaths,
as long as Zion is in the chains of Edom,
and I am in the binds of the Arabs?
| Scheme | XX AA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 01100101 1111111 011111 111011101 11110100111 0110011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
The point of this verse is the poet’s emphatic sense that he cannot function fully as long as the Temple is destroyed.
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