Analysis of Your Slander Is Sweet

Mirabai 1498 (Kudki, Pali district, Jodhpur State) – 1556 (Dwaraka)



Rana, to me your slander is sweet.

Some praise me, some blame me. I

go the other way.

On the narrow path, I found God’s

people. What should I turn back for?

I am learning wisdom among the

wise, and the wicked look at me

Mira’s Lord is Giridhar Nagar.

Let the wicked burn in the kitchen fire.

Mira’s God is the lifter of mountains.

I don’t like your strange world, Rana,

A world where there are no holy men,

and all the people are trash.

I have given up ornaments, given up

braiding my hair.

I have given up putting on kajal

(collyrium), and putting my hair up.

Mira’s Lord is Giridhar Nagar; I have

found a perfect bridegroom.


Scheme X X X X A B X A X X B X X C X X C X X
Poetic Form
Metre 101111011 1111111 10101 10101111 10111111 111010010 10010111 11111 10101001010 111010110 11111110 011111101 0101011 11101100101 1011 111011011 1010111 1111111 10011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 657
Words 124
Sentences 14
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mirabai

Mirabai was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Lord Krishna. more…

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