Analysis of Hatikvah: The Hope of the Star of David



In the Star of David
Dwells the Holy Father
In his eternal sacred residence
With the longing of the Holy Spirit
For the precious return of his Children
And the triumphant entry of his Beloved
His Only Son to restore all mankind to unity.


Scheme ABCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 001110 101010 0101010100 1010101010 1010011110 00010101101 11011011111100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 240
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 193
Words per stanza (avg) 44

About this poem

For Messianic Judaism the Star of David is an emblem symbolizing the covenantal relationship between Jew and Gentile.

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Written on October 28, 2023

Submitted by karlcfolkes on October 28, 2023

Modified by karlcfolkes on November 19, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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