Analysis of The Poet To Death
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die
While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring;
Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs
Where dhadikulas sing.
Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die
With all my blossoming hopes unharvested,
My joys ungarnered, all my songs unsung,
And all my tears unshed.
Tarry a while, till I am satisfied
Of love and grief, of earth and altering sky;
Till all my human hungers are fulfilled,
O Death, I cannot die!
Scheme | Abxb Aaxa xaxa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1001111101 111111111 11110101001 111 1001111101 11110011 11111101 01111 100111110 11011101001 111101101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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