Analysis of No one knows my invisible life

Mirabai 1498 (Kudki, Pali district, Jodhpur State) – 1556 (Dwaraka)



No one knows my invisible life.
Pain
and madness for Rama.
Our wedding bed is high up
in the gallows.
Meet him?
If the dark healer comes,
we'll negotiate the hurt.
I love the man who takes care
of cows. The cowherd.
Cowherd and dancer.
My eyes are drunk,
worn out from making love
with him. We are one.
I am now his dark color.
People notice me, point fingers at me.
They see my desire,
since I'm walking about like a lunatic.
I'm wiped out, gone.
Yet no one knows I live with my prince,
the cowherd.
The palace can't contain me.
I leave it behind.
I couldn't care less about gossip
or my royal name.
I'll be with him
in all his gardens.

[Translated by Willis Barnstone]


Scheme XAXBXCXXXDEXXXEFEXXXDFXBXCX A
Poetic Form
Metre 111101001 1 010110 10101111 0010 11 101101 101001 1101111 1101 1010 1111 111101 11111 1111110 1010111011 111010 1110011010 1111 111111111 01 0101011 11101 110110110 11101 1111 01110 0101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 651
Words 131
Sentences 20
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 27, 1
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 256
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mirabai

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