Analysis of Chewing slowly

Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)

Chewing slowly,
Only after I’d eaten
My grandmother,
Mother,
Son-in-law,
Two brothers-in-law,
And father-in-law
(His big family included)
In that order,
And had for dessert
The town’s inhabitants,

Did I find, says Kabir,
The beloved that I’ve become
One with.

Scheme XXAABBBXAXX AXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 1010110 110 10 101 11001 01001 11100010 0110 01101 010100 11111 0011101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 260
Words 42
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 11, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic al-Kabīr which means 'The Great' – the 37th name of God in Islam. Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir Panth, a religious community that recognizes him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9,600,000. They are spread over north and central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, up from 843,171 in the 1901 census. His writings include Bijak, Sakhi Granth, Kabir Granthawali and Anurag Sagar. more…

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