Analysis of I Said To The Wanting-Creature Inside Me
I said to the wanting-creature inside me:
What is this river you want to cross?
There are no travelers on the river-road, and no road.
Do you see anyone moving about on that bank, or nesting?
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
There is no tow rope either, and no one to pull it.
There is no ground, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford!
And there is no body, and no mind!
Do you believe there is some place that will make the
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don't go off somewhere else!
Kabir says this: just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.
Scheme | AXXB XXX XXAB AXAX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010011 111101111 11110010101011 111101001111110 11110110110110 1111110011111 111111111111 011110011 110111111110 1110 0111011110 111010011110 1110101111 1011100 11111 1111101111 01001 01101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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