This is an analysis of The Home Of Love by Yehudah HaLevi.
Ever since You were the home of love for me, my love has lived where You have lived. Because of You, I have delighted in the wrath of my enemies; let them be, let them torment the one whom You tormented. It was from You that they learned their wrath, and I love them, for they hound the wounded one whom You struck down. Ever since You despised me, I have despised myself, for I will not honour what You despise. So be it, until Your anger has passed, and again You will redeem
Your own possession, which You once redeemed.**…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX X X
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,1,
- Metre: 101100101111111111101011101000101100100100101111100101111111110111010111111011011110111110110110110001110111011001 1101011101 0010010 0101110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 4
Repeated words/phrases
you, of, i, them, love, for, have
