Analysis of To India
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
O YOUNG through all thy immemorial years!
Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom,
And, like a bride high-mated with the spheres,
Beget new glories from thine ageless womb!
The nations that in fettered darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great mornings break . . . .
Mother, O Mother, wherefore dost thou sleep?
Arise and answer for thy children's sake!
Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast;
Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101001 1101010111 0101110101 0111011101 0101010101 1111111101 101101111 0101011101 1101110101 110111001 10110010011 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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