Analysis of All the Rest of Gaza
All the rest of human
Makes its way through,
Best intention piloted,
New horizons forever
Out of view, walled off---
But there are taller walls
Around you.
All the rest of human
Is listening, witnessing,
Braced for morning by
Watching torn places
Burn but belong still---
Belong to a people
Breathing through you.
All the rest of human
Collects its best case
Scenario by day and counts
You like beads in bed. We can
Try to find your time in our dark,
But we are lost in map tan---
World Clock doesn't know
Gaza, Ramallah, Jenin, like you.
All the rest of human
Might not wonder like me
Whether Gaza keeps World
Time like a stopwatch,
Whether New York or Tel Aviv
Would stop if Gaza stopped---
Is time choked, moated, as
Blocked as the path for you?
All the rest of human
Hopes it can't know, imagine,
What morning will show, if it
Will show, without light, dry,
Without water, in shadow,
Without shelter, of a city
Without its residents, children---
Far behind a wall, a border, we now
know means nothing, because of you.
Scheme | Abxxxxb Axcxxxb Axxdxdeb Afxxxxxb Aaxcefaxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 1111 1010100 1010010 11111 111101 011 101110 1100100 11101 10110 11011 011010 1011 101110 01111 01001101 1110111 111110101 1111011 11101 100101011 101110 111011 101011 1101 10111101 111101 11111 110111 101110 1111010 1101111 110111 011001 01101010 01110010 1010101011 11100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,031 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 8, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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