Analysis of The Royal Tombs Of Golconda
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
I MUSE among these silent fanes
Whose spacious darkness guards your dust;
Around me sleep the hoary plains
That hold your ancient wars in trust.
I pause, my dreaming spirit hears,
Across the wind's unquiet tides,
The glimmering music of your spears,
The laughter of your royal brides.
In vain, O Kings, doth time aspire
To make your names oblivion's sport,
While yonder hill wears like a tier
The ruined grandeur of your fort.
Though centuries falter and decline,
Your proven strongholds shall remain
Embodied memories of your line,
Incarnate legends of your reign.
O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed
Your flower-like bodies to the tomb;
Death is in truth the vital seed
Of your imperishable bloom
Each new-born year the bulbuls sing
Their songs of your renascent loves;
Your beauty wakens with the spring
To kindle these pomegranate groves.
Scheme | ABAB AAAA XCXC DEDE FGFG HAHA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11011101 11010111 01110101 11110101 11110101 010111 010010111 01011101 01111101 111111 11011101 01001111 110010001 1101101 010100111 01010111 11011101 110110101 11010101 1111 1111011 111111 1101101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 849 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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