Analysis of Doha (couplet)

Bihari 1595 (Gwalior) – 1663 (Vrindavan)

Satsaiya ke dohre jyun naavik ke teer
Dekhan men chote lage ghaav kare ghambir.

Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1111111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 86
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Bihari

Bihari Lal Chaube or Bihārī (1595–1663) was a Hindi poet, who is famous for writing the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, Kumar which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished from narrative and simpler styles.Today it is considered the most well known book of the Ritikavya Kaal or 'Riti Kaal'(an era in which poets wrote poems for kings) of Hindi literature. more…

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