Analysis of The Poet's Love-Song

Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)



In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my conquering song.
I need thee not, I am content with these:
Keep silence in thy soul, beyond the seas!

But in the desolate hour of midnight, when
An ectasy of starry silence sleeps
And my soul hungers for thy voice, O then,
Love, like the magic of wild melodies,
Let thy soul answer mine across the seas.


Scheme ABBACC DXDCC
Poetic Form
Metre 01110110101 1111111111 01110100101 01010111001 1111111011 1100110101 10010010111 11110101 011111111 1101011100 1111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 463
Words 91
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 5
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 179
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so. more…

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