Analysis of Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
SHALT thou be conquered of a human fate
My liege, my lover, whose imperial head
Hath never bent in sorrow of defeat?
Shalt thou be vanquished, whose imperial feet
Have shattered armies and stamped empires dead?
Who shall unking thee, husband of a queen?
Wear thou thy majesty inviolate.
Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's kingdoms fade to a remembered dream,
But thine henceforth shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
Where'er the radiance of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron footcloths spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
My hair shall braid thy temples like a crown
Of sapphires, and my kiss upon thy brows
Like çithar-music lull thee to repose,
Till the sun yield thee homage of his light.
O king, thy kingdom who from thee can wrest?
What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with impregnable delight
Of Hope's triumphant keen flame-carven sword?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 11110101001 1101010101 11110101001 11010011001 111110101 1111000100 1101110101 1101100101 11111101001 1000101010 0111001101 0101010001 10010011101 111101011 1010101 01100101 0101011101 11011111 1111110101 11000110111 111011101 1011110111 1111011111 111111111 1111011111 0101010001 110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,195 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 13, 5 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 317 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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