Analysis of When I found the boundless knowledge
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
Kabir:
My mind was soothed
When I found the boundless knowledge,
And the fires
that scorch the world
To me are water cool.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1111 11101010 0010 1101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 130 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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