Analysis of Oh Friend, I Love You, Think This Over
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
Oh friend, I love you, think this over
carefully! If you are in love,
then why are you asleep?
If you have found him,
give yourself to him, take him.
Why do you lose track of him again and again?
If you are about to fall into heavy sleep anyway,
why waste time smoothing the bed
and arranging the pillows?
Kabir will tell you the truth: this is what love is like:
suppose you had to cut your head off
and give it to someone else,
what difference would that make?
| Scheme | XXX AA X XXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111110 10011101 111101 11111 1011111 111111101001 11101110110110 1111001 0010010 111101111111 011111111 011111 1100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 1, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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