Analysis of Go To That Impenetrable Realm
Mirabai 1498 (Kudki, Pali district, Jodhpur State) – 1556 (Dwaraka)
Go to that impenetrable realm
That death himself trembles to look upon.
There plays the fountain of love
With swans sporting on its waters.
There the company of holy men is available,
And one may talk of spiritual knowledge.
There one can mediate on Shyam
And purify one's mind.
There one may bind on
The anklets of good-conduct,
And dance the dance of inner contentment.
There one may adopt a headpiece of gold
And the sixteen kinds of adornment,
Let there be love for Shyam
And indifference to all else.
[Translated by A.J. Alston]
Scheme | ABXX XXAX BXC XCAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010001 110111101 1101011 11101110 10100110110100 01111100010 1111011 01011 11111 0101101 0101110010 111010111 000111010 111111 00100111 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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