This is an analysis of Lullaby For The Hungry by Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri.

Sleep, You hungry people, sleep!
The gods of food watch over you.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABXbcXdefcgcfcXcAgcchhAeiXcdXhciAgXhbhABAB
  • Stanza lengths: 42,
  • Metre: 1110101 01011101 10111100 1100011111 10101110100 100111110 11010101 1011011010 110101010 100010101 1001 1001010 1001001010 100001001 1001001100 111100101010 1110101 1101001001 00101101 101011001 110010010 100101101 1110101 11110101 1111001 0100110111 11010110 111001001 111010101 100100010 11010011 00101111 1110101 11011000111 1001101010 001001100 11111001 11111111 1110101 01011101 1110101 01011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

sleep, you, as, of