Analysis of Why Mira Can't Come Back to Her Old House
The colors of the Dark One have penetrated Mira's body; all the other colors washed out.
Making love with the Dark One and eating little, those are my pearls and my carnelians.
Meditation beads and the forehead streak, those are my scarves and my rings.
That's enough feminine wiles for me. My teacher taught me this.
Approve me or disapprove me: I praise the Mountain Energy night and day.
I take the path that ecstatic human beings have taken for centuries.
I don't steal money, I don't hit anyone. What will you charge me with?
I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb on a jackass?
Try to be serious
[Translated by Robert Bly]
Scheme | XAAAXAXAAA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011110011010101011 1011011010101111011 0101001011111011 101100111110111 011101111010100101 1101101010101101100 1111011110111111 1110101010010 0111111101 111100 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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