Analysis of Dear Father
Amir Khusro 1253 (1253 Patiyali) – 1325 (Delhi)
Why did you part me from yourself, dear father, why?
You've given houses with two stories to my brothers,
And to me, a foreign land? Why dear father, why?
We (daughters) are just cows tied to your peg,
Will move on to where ever you drive us to, dear father.
We are just flower-buds of your garden,
And are asked for, in every household, dear father.
We are just birds from your cage,
Will fly off when its dawn again, dear father.
I've left at home, alcoves full of dolls;
And parted from my buddies too, dear father.
When my palanquin passed beneath the terrace,
My brother fainted and fell, dear father.
As I remove the curtain from the palanquin,
I see we've reached the beloved's house, dear father.
Why did you part me from yourself, dear father, why?
Scheme | AbacdedfdgdhdedA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011101 1101011101110 011010111101 1101111111 11111101111110 1111011110 011101001110 1111111 11111101110 11111111 01011101110 111101010 1101001110 1101010101 1111011110 111111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 581 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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