Analysis of Mine is Gopal
Mine Is Gopal
Mine is Gopal, the Mountain-Holder; there is no one else.
On his head he wears the peacock-crown: He alone is my husband.
Father, mother, brother, relative: I have none to call my own.
I've forsaken both God, and the family's honor: what should I do?
I've sat near the holy ones, and I've lost shame before the people.
I've torn my scarf into shreds; I'm all wrapped up in a blanket.
I took off my finery of pearls and coral, and strung a garland of wildwood flowers.
With my tears, I watered the creeper of love that I planted;
Now the creeper has grown spread all over, and borne the fruit of bliss.
The churner of the milk churned with great love.
When I took out the butter, no need to drink any buttermilk.
I came for the sake of love-devotion; seeing the world, I wept.
Mira is the maidservant of the Mountain-Holder:
Now with love He takes me across to the further shore.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1110101011111 111110111011110 1010101001111111 10101100100101111 1110101011101010 111101111110010 111110011010010101110 11111001111110 101111110010111 011011111 111101011111010 1110111010100111 10101101010 1111110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 900 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 685 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 167 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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