Analysis of How Could a Lover Fall?

Sant Tukaram 1598 (Dehu, Pune Maharashtra) – 1649 (Dehu)



What could have caused your grip to weaken
that allowed creation to be?

How could a lover fall to his death
from the arms of infinite
strength?

How active you are in the mind sustaining such a great wall
that the sun can cast a frightening shadow
the world believes.

No one has ever really known sadness. No real God
would ever allow pain.

How then can a heart feel it is broken and in need
If we are held in the arms of infinite
compassion and
strength?

The mirror you (God)  stand before -
we need to gaze into it also.

That name you called Beloved
as I fell from your lips -
I suffer

because I did not quite
hear it;

so tell me again dear One
so clear:

I am
you.


Scheme ax xbC xdx xx xbxC xd xxx xx ax xx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (36%)
Metre 111111110 10101011 110101111 1011100 1 110110010101011 1011101001 0101 1111010110111 110011 1110111110001 11110011100 0100 1 01011101 111101110 111101 111111 110 011111 11 1110111 11 11 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 661
Words 136
Sentences 9
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sant Tukaram

Sant Tukaram Maharaj also referred to as Santshreshta, Jagadguru, Tukoba and Tukobaraya, was a 17th-century Hindu poet and sant of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra, India. more…

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