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 |
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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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