Analysis of Strange Is The Path When You Offer Love
Do not mention the name of love,
O my simple-minded companion.
Strange is the path
When you offer your love.
Your body is crushed at the first step.
If you want to offer love
Be prepared to cut off your head
And sit on it.
Be like the moth,
Which circles the lamp and offers its body.
Be like the deer, which, on hearing the horn,
Offers its head to the hunter.
Be like the partridge,
Which swallows burning coals
In love of the moon.
Be like the fish
Which yields up its life
When separated from the sea.
Be like the bee,
Entrapped in the closing petals of the lotus.
Mira's lord is the courtly Giridhara.
She says: Offer your mind
To those lotus feet.
Scheme | AXXAX AXXXBXCXXXXXBBX CXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111 111010010 1101 111011 110111011 1111101 10111111 0111 1101 11001010110 1101111001 10111010 11010 110101 01101 1101 11111 1100101 1101 010010101010 1110101 111011 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 15, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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