Analysis of Sitar



Your ethereal fingers grace the strings of the sitar,

Evoking love and life,

Making it speak for you,

As your words are much too fragile for your sweet lips,

Your world of music,

Fluid and enchanting,

Has made slaves of kings,

And believers from stone,

Cast your melodious spell,

And watch how we softly float around you,

Like wisps of clouds,

Bowing and swaying,

To and fro,

You are light,

You are the one,

As you grace the sitar with your loving touch.


Scheme X X A X X B X X X A X B X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 10100101011001 010101 101111 111111101111 11110 100010 11111 001011 1101001 0111101011 1111 10010 101 111 1101 11100111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 484
Words 113
Sentences 1
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 22
Words per stanza (avg) 5

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When I first heard her play.

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Submitted by cwolff on December 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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