Analysis of Brother, I've Seen Some
Brother, I've seen some
Astonishing sights:
A lion keeping watch
Over pasturing cows;
A mother delivered
After her son was;
A guru prostrated
Before his disciple;
Fish spawning
On treetops;
A cat carrying away
A dog;
A gunny-sack
Driving a bullock-cart;
A buffalo going out to graze,
Sitting on a horse;
A tree with its branches in the earth,
Its roots in the sky;
A tree with flowering roots.
This verse, says Kabir,
Is your key to the universe.
If you can figure it out.
| Scheme | XXXXAXAXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 01001 010101 1011 010010 10011 011 011010 110 11 0110001 01 0101 100101 01010111 10101 011110001 11001 0111001 1111 1111010 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 531 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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