Analysis of A Love Song from the North

Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)



Tell me no more of thy love, papeeha,
Wouldst thou recall to my heart, papeeha,
Dreams of delight that are gone,
When swift to my side came the feet of my lover
With stars of the dusk and the dawn?
I see the soft wings of the clouds on the river,
And jewelled with raindrops the mango-leaves quiver,
And tender boughs flower on the plain.....
But what is their beauty to me, papeeha,
Beauty of blossom and shower, papeeha,
That brings not my lover again?
Tell me no more of thy love, papeeha,
Wouldst thou revive in my heart, papeeha
Grief for the joy that is gone?
I hear the bright peacock in glimmering woodlands
Cry to its mate in the dawn;
I hear the black koel's slow, tremulous wooing,
And sweet in the gardens the calling and cooing
Of passionate bulbul and dove....
But what is their music to me, papeeha
Songs of their laughter and love, papeeha,
To me, forsaken of love?


Scheme AabcbccdaaeAabfbgghaah
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 1111111 1101111 111111011110 11101001 110111011010 0111010110 010110101 111110111 101100101 11111001 11111111 11010111 1101111 1101101001 1111001 11011110010 010010010010 1100101 111110111 11110011 1101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 869
Words 166
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 682
Words per stanza (avg) 164
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so. more…

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