Analysis of The Painful Wail
Allama Muhammad Iqbal 1877 (Sialkot, Punjab) – 1938 (Lahore, Punjab)
Consumed with grief I am, I get relief in no way
O circumambient waters of the Ganges drown me
Our land foments excessive mutual enmity
What unity! Our closeness harbors separation
Enmity instead of sincerity is outrageous
Enmity among the same barn's grains is outrageous
If the brotherly breeze has not entered in a garden
No pleasure can be derived from songs in that garden
Though I exceedingly love the real closeness
I am upset by the mixing of waves and the shore
The miraculous poet is like the grain from the barn
The grain has no existence if there is no barn
How can beauty unveil itself if no one is anxious for sight
Lighting of the candle is meaningless if there is no assembly
Why does the taste for speech not change to silence
Why does this brilliance not appear out from my mirror
Alas! My tongue poured its speech down
When war's fire had burnt the garden down
Scheme | XA AB CC BB XX DD XA XX EE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111101011 1110101011 1011010100100 1100101010010 10001101001010 1000101111010 10100111100010 1101101110110 11010010110 1101101011001 00100101101101 011101011111 1110010111111011 10101011001111010 11011111110 1111010111110 01111111 1110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 870 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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