Analysis of Corn Grinders
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
O little mouse, why dost thou cry
While merry stars laugh in the sky?
Alas! alas! my lord is dead!
Ah, who will ease my bitter pain?
He went to seek a millet-grain
In the rich farmer's granary shed;
They caught him in a baited snare,
And slew my lover unaware:
Alas! alas! my lord is dead.
O little deer, why dost thou moan,
Hid in thy forest-bower alone?
Alas! alas! my lord is dead!
Ah! who will quiet my lament?
At fall of eventide he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
Alas! alas! my lord is dead.
O little bride, why dost thou weep
With all the happy world asleep?
Alas! alas! my lord is dead!
Ah, who will stay these hungry tears,
Or still the want of famished years,
And crown with love my marriage-bed?
My soul burns with the quenchless fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas! alas! my lord is dead.
Scheme | aa BccbddB ee Bf fbggB hh BxxbiiB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11011001 01011111 11111101 11110101 0011011 11100101 0111001 01011111 11011111 101101001 01011111 11110101 111111 11010101 01010111 01110101 01011111 11011111 11010101 01011111 11111101 11011101 01111101 11110110 1111010010 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 890 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 7, 2, 2, 5, 2, 7 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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