Analysis of The Snake Charmer

Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)



WHITHER dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?
In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume,
Where the clustering keovas guard the squirrel's slumber,
Where the deep woods glimmer with the jasmine's bloom?

I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow laughter the petals of delight.

Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their ambrosial fire?
Come, thou subtle bride of my mellifluous wooing,
Come, thou silver-breasted moonbeam of de- sire!


Scheme XABA XCXC XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1011110101111 0111010101 10100110110 1011101011 1111011101110 1110010110101 1010101101010 111010010101 1011101110010 1110101010 1110111110 11101011110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 624
Words 100
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 165
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so. more…

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