Analysis of Turn Back?
Mirabai 1498 (Kudki, Pali district, Jodhpur State) – 1556 (Dwaraka)
This infamy, O my Prince,
is delicious!
Some revile me,
others applaud,
I simply follow my incomprehensible road.
A razor-thin path
but you meet some good people,
a terrible path but you hear a true word.
Turn back?
Because the wretched stare and see nothing?
O Mira's lord is noble and dark,
and slanderers
rake only themselves
over the coals
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100111 1010 1011 1001 110101001001 01011 1111110 01001111011 11 0101010110 11111001 01 11001 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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