Analysis of Nothing is really mine except Krishna.
Mirabai 1498 (Kudki, Pali district, Jodhpur State) – 1556 (Dwaraka)
Nothing is really mine except Krishna.
O my parents, I have searched the world
And found nothing worthy of love.
Hence I am a stranger amidst my kinfolk
And an exile from their company,
Since I seek the companionship of holy men;
There alone do I feel happy,
In the world I only weep.
I planted the creeper of love
And silently watered it with my tears;
Now it has grown and overspread my dwelling.
You offered me a cup of poison
Which I drank with joy.
Mira is absorbed in contemplation of Krishna,
She is with God and all is well!
O my King, my father, nothing delights me more
Than singing the praises of Krishna.
If thou art wrath,
then keep thy kingdom and thy palace,
For if God is angry, where can I dwell?
Thou didst send me a cup of poison and a black cobra,
Yet in all I saw only Krishna!
Mira is drunk with love, and is wedded to the Lord!
The heart of Mira is entangled
In the beauty of the feet of her Guru;
Nothing else causes her delight!
He enabled her to be happy in the drama of the world;
The Knowledge he gave her dried up
The ocean of being and becoming.
Mira says: My whole world is Shri Krishna;
Now that my gaze is turned inward, I see it clearly
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010110 111011101 01101011 1110100111 01111100 11100101101 10111110 0011101 1100111 0100101111 111101110 110101110 11111 101010010110 11110111 111110100111 110010110 1111 111100110 1111101111 11110111000110 101111010 1011110110101 011101010 0010101101 10110001 1010011100010101 01011011 0101100010 1011111110 1111111011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,182 |
Words | 235 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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