Analysis of It's True I Went To The Market
My friend, I went to the market and bought the Dark One.
You claim by night, I claim by day.
Actually I was beating a drum all the time I was buying him.
You say I gave too much; I say too little.
Actually, I put him on a scale before I bought him.
What I paid was my social body, my town body, my family body, and all my inherited jewels.
Mirabai says: The Dark One is my husband now.
Be with me when I lie down; you promised me this in an earlier life.
[Translated by Robert Bly]
| Scheme | XXAXAXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101001011 11111111 10011100110111101 11111111110 10011110101111 1111110101110110010011010010 1101111101 111111111011011001 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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