Analysis of Kashmiri Song
Laurence Hope 1865 ( Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire) – 1904 ( Madras)
Pale hands I love beside the Shalimar,
Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far,
Before you agonise them in farewell?
Oh, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains,
Holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell,
How the hot blood rushed wildly through the veins
Beneath your touch, until you waved farewell.
Pale hands, pink tipped, like Lotus buds that float
On those cool waters where we used to dwell,
I would have rather felt you round my throat,
Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DBDB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 1111110111 11111111 0111101 1101011101 1001110011 1011110101 011101111 1111110111 1111011111 1111011111 101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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