Analysis of I Look for You

Rabbi Solomon ibn Gabirol 1021 (Málaga, Caliphate of Cordoba) – 1070 (Valencia, Taifa of Valencia/Toledo)



I look for you early,
my rock and my refuge,
         offering you worship
     morning and night;
before your vastness
I come confused
          and afraid, for you see
     the thoughts of my heart.

What could the heart
and tongue compose,
         or spirit’s strength
     within me to suit you?
But song soothes
and so I’ll give praise
          to your being as long
     as your breath-in-me moves.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111110 110110 100110 1001 01110 1101 001111 01111 1101 0101 1101 011111 111 01111 111011 111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 411
Words 71
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Rabbi Solomon ibn Gabirol

Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher in the Neo-Platonic tradition. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics and satire. more…

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