Analysis of The Heat of Midnight Tears
Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,
Kissing his feet, resistance broken, tears all night.
If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,
I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.
If we could reach Him through nothing but berries and wild nuts,
Then surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb!
If we could reach him by munching lettuce and dry leaves,
Then the goats would surely go to the Holy One before us!
If the worship of stone statues could bring us all the way,
I would have adored a granite mountain years ago.
Mirabai says: The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.
[Translated by Robert Bly]
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| Metre | 101111101100 101101010111 1111011010010 111111101011 11111110110011 1100111110111101 1111111010011 101110110101011 1010111111101 1110101010101 110111111111 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 666 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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