Analysis of Knowing Nothing Shuts The Iron Gates
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
Knowing nothing shuts the iron gates;
the new love opens them.
The sound of the gates opening wakes
the beautiful woman asleep.
Kabir says: Fantastic!
Don't let a chance like this go by!
| Scheme | XX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 101010101 011101 011011001 01001001 11010 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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