Analysis of Friend, Hope For The Guest While You Are Alive
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think... and think... while you are alive.
What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time
before death.
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten—
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment
in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life
you will have the face of satisfied desire.
So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
believe in the Great Sound!
Kabir says this: When the Guest is being search for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest
that does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
Scheme | AAAXB AXC XXDXXXBXC XX XXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111101 101010011101 10111101 11101001101 011 1111111101 111 111110 00101011110010 101010110 111100 1111111 111101 11101111010 001011 1111100110011 11101110010 1101011110101 010011 11110111011 11001001010101 11101 111011101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 9, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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