Analysis of Passover

Jessie E. Sampter 1883 (New York City) – 1938 (Kibbutz Givat Brenner)



It’s a far, far road from Egypt
     To our own, our happy land,
From the pyramids of Egypt
     Built beneath the tyrant’s hand;
Its road so strange and marvelous
     That few can understand.

See, the Lord had passed us over
     For his sign upon our gate!
He has spared the crushed and driven,
     He has judged the proud and great.
When the hosts of Israel rise to go
     He makes the crooked straight.

It’s a far, far road to Zion
     For the slave afraid to flee;
He must pass through flood and desert,
     Yet his land he shall not see.
But the man that knows the sign of God
     On Pesach eve is free.


Scheme ABABXB XCDCXC DEXEXE
Poetic Form
Metre 10111110 110110101 10100110 1010101 11110100 11101 10111110 11101101 11101010 1110101 1011100111 110101 10111110 1010111 11111010 1111111 101110111 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 604
Words 114
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted by naama on July 13, 2020

Modified on April 05, 2023

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Jessie E. Sampter

Educator, Poet. Language. English, Hebrew. Jessie Sampter (March 22, 1883 - 1938) was a Jewish educator, poet, and Zionist pioneer. She was born in New York City and immigrated to Palestine in 1919. more…

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