Analysis of The Deeds Of Krishna



There is no end to the deeds of Krishna:
true to his promise, he tended the cows in Gokula;
Lord of the gods and compassionate to his devotees,
he came as Nrisingha
and tore apart Hiranyakashipa.
When Bali spread his dominion
over the three worlds,
he begged three paces of land from him
to uphold the majesty of the gods,
and stepped over his entire domain:
here too he rescued the captive elephant.
Countless such deeds figure in the Vedas and the Puranas,
hearing which Suradasa
humbly bows before that Lord.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101110 111101100101 11010010011101 1111 01011 11011010 10011 111101111 1010100101 0110101001 11110010100 101110001001 1011 1010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 506
Words 93
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 410
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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