Analysis of Life
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
CHILDREN, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or carnival of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
Children, ye have not lived, ye but exist
Till some resistless hour shall rise and move
Your hearts to wake and hunger after love,
And thirst with passionate longing for the things
That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears,
And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years,
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife,
Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111111 11010111 1100110111 0111110101 0111001100 1011111101 111101101 1111010101 01110010101 1111111100 1111011101 01010111001 10110100111 1011111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 633 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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