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 |
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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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