Analysis of The Timid Gods!
Javid Ahmad Tak 1981 (Srinagar)
When the sun shines high,
And it leaves its morning shyness,
As it dominates the light spreading across the vastness of the sky,
Then let me reflect back to it your loveliness,
When the sun beams dazzle over flowers many,
And they sway with the afternoon breeze,
Let me show them your beautiful avatars many,
And ah their unease,
When the river flows at its enjoyable pace to meet the sea,
Then let me submerge your essences into the infinite reservoir of feelings,
Then as the river meets the sea, let it see,
That in the sea of beauty every drop, every wave and every ripple is a creation of your beauty’s dealings,
When the God of beauty wakes up from the blissful sleep,
Let me cast your shadows around the universe,
And as its reflections to and fro leap,
Then let the God’s realise their acts perverse,
Because Gods sometimes resort to fiendish timidity,
Where they believe the universe is for them alone,
And when I show them your beauty,
Then let them realise that they too, to many weaknesses are prone,
When the winter approaches and the rose in the winter garden lies abandoned,
By the summer kisses and beauty’s secret visitations,
Let me make you touch its heart that in winter freeze lies stoned,
Then let the God’s feel their privations,
And when my love Irma, you allow me to,
I shall create a new order in the Universe,
Where love given is the love received too,
Then, that shall be the universe to which no one shall be averse.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG CHCH XIXI JGJG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111 01111010 1110011001010101 1110111111 101110101010 01110011 111111001010 01101 1010111010011101 111011101010010110 11010101111 1001110100110010100101001011110 1011101110101 1111101010 0110101011 110111101 01101011100100 110101011101 01111110 111111111010011 10100100010010101010 1010100110010 11111111010111 110111010 01111010111 110101100010 1110101011 111101011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,466 |
Words | 302 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
This poem shows the timelessness and eternal beauty of love. And it also proves that with faith, one can move mountains.
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