Analysis of The Impossible Pass

Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)



The pundits have taken
A highway that takes them
     away,
     and they're gone.
Kabir has climbed to
The impossible pass
     of Ram
     and stayed.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 010110 01111 01 011 1111 001001 11 01
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 153
Words 26
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic al-Kabīr which means 'The Great' – the 37th name of God in Islam. Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir Panth, a religious community that recognizes him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9,600,000. They are spread over north and central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, up from 843,171 in the 1901 census. His writings include Bijak, Sakhi Granth, Kabir Granthawali and Anurag Sagar. more…

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