Analysis of Sleep
Mirabai 1498 (Kudki, Pali district, Jodhpur State) – 1556 (Dwaraka)
Sleep has not visited me the whole night,
Will the dawn ever come?
O my companion,
Once I awoke with a start from a dream.
Now the remembrance from that vision
Never fades.
My life is ebbing as I choke and sigh,
When will the Lord of the Afflicted come
I have lost my senses and gone mad,
But the Lord knows my secret.
He who deals out life and death
nows the secret of Mira's pain.
| Scheme | ABCDCEFBGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111001011 101101 11010 1101101101 100101110 101 1111011101 1101100101 111110011 1011110 1111101 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 390 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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