Analysis of Friend, Wake Up! Why Do You Go On Sleeping?
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
Friend, wake up! Why do you go on sleeping?
The night is over— do you want to lose the day
the same way?
Other women who managed to get up early have
already found an elephant or a jewel...
so much was lost already while you slept...
and that was so unnecessary!
The one who loves you understood, but you did not.
You forgot to make a place in your bed next to you.
Instead you spent your life playing.
In your twenties you did not grow
because you did not know who your Lord was.
Wake up! Wake up! There's no one in your bed—
He left you during the long night.
Kabir says: The only woman awake is the woman
who has heard the flute!
Scheme | ABBXXXX XXAXXXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111110 011101111101 011 1010110111101 010111001010 1111010111 01110100 01111011111 1011101011111 01111110 01101111 0111111111 1111111011 11110011 1101010011010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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