Analysis of The Lord Helps His Devotees



The voice falters
when it sings of the deeds of the Lord
who's an ocean of mercy.
He gave guileful Putana, who posed as his mother, a
mother's reward!
He of whom the Vedas and the Upanishads sing as the Unmanifest,
let Yashoda bind him with a rope,
lamented Ugrasena's grief,
and after killing Kansa made him king
paying him obeisance, bowing low;
Freed the kings held captive by jardsandha
at which the kingly hosts sang his praises;
removing Gautama's curse
he restored life to stone-turned Ahalya:'
all in a moment he rescued Braj's ruler from the sea-monster running to his
aid as a cow to her calf,"
he came hastening to rescue the king of the elephants;
he got Namadeva's hut thatched.
says Suradasa, O, make Hari hear my prayer.


Scheme ABCDBBEFGHIJKLMNOPQ
Poetic Form
Metre 0110 111101101 1110110 11111111100 1001 111010011101 1111101 01011 010101111 1011101 10111011 1101011110 01011 10111111 10010110110101101011 1101101 111001100110100 11111 111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 726
Words 135
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 578
Words per stanza (avg) 131
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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