Analysis of On Pain
Khalil Gibran 1883 (Bsharri) – 1931 (New York City)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its
heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the
daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem
less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that
pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the
winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within
you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy
in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by
the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has
been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has
moistened with His own sacred tears.
Scheme | AX AX BXX CXA BX X XX XC XX AAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010111 1010 101011011111 11100111111 01111101010 1010011111111 110111 01101010111 1011110100101 11011 01111010010 10111 11111110 110101011001001 11111 110010011100 01001 111110011101 01011001 00111111111 11010110101 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 917 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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