Analysis of It Is Needless To Ask Of A Saint
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs;
For the priest, the warrior. the tradesman, and all the
thirty-six castes, alike are seeking for God.
It is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be;
The barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter-
Even Raidas was a seeker after God.
The Rishi Swapacha was a tanner by caste.
Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no mark of distinction.
| Scheme | ABCDECFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111010111101 101010001010 10110111011 111101110110111 0101110100100 1011010101 011101011 10100110111101111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 454 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 352 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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