Analysis of When you were born in this world - Dohas II
When you were born in this world
Everyone laughed while you cried
Conduct NOT yourself in manner such
That they laugh when you are gone
Kabir's mind got cleansed like the holy Ganges water
Now everyone follows, saying Kabir Kabir
Guru the washer man, disciple is the cloth
The name of God liken to the soap
Wash the mind on foundation firm
To realize the glow of Truth
Alive one sees, alive one knows
Thus crave for salvation when full of life
Alive you did not cut the noose of binding actions
Hoping liberation with death!
Inexpressible is the story of Love
It cannot be revealed by words
Like the dumb eating sweet-meat
Only smiles, the sweetness he cannot tell
Worry is the bandit that eats into one's heart
What the doctor can do, what remedy to impart?
Says Kabir
Don't be so proud and vain
Looking at your high mansion
Death makes one lie on bare land
And grass will grow thereon
Says Kabir
Don't be so proud and vain
The clutches of Time are dark
Who knows where shall it kill
Whether at home or abroad
Says Kabir
By my doing nothing happens
What I don't does come to pass
If anything happens as if my doing
Then truly it is done by someone else
Like the pupil in the eyes
The Lord resides inside
Ignorant do not know this fact
They search Him outside
First the pangs of separation
Next grows the thirst for Love
Says Kabir then only hope
The union to materialize
Scheme | xaxb cc xdxx xxex fxxx gg CHixb CHxxx Cexxx jaxa ifdj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 101111 011010101 1111111 111110101010 110101011 10101010101 011110101 10110101 1100111 01110111 1110101111 0111110111010 1001011 1101011 11010111 1011011 1010101101 101010110111 1010111100101 11 111101 1011110 1111111 011101 11 111101 0101111 111111 1011101 11 11101010 1111111 1101011110 110111111 1010001 010101 10011111 11111 1011010 110111 111101 01010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,379 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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