Analysis of Stay silent to survive
Bulleh Shah 1680 (Uch) – 1757 (Kasur)
Stay silent to survive.
People cannot stand to hear the truth.
They are at your throat if you speak it.
They keep away from those who speak it.
But truth is sweet to its lovers!
Truth destroys shara.
Brings rapture to its lovers,
And unexpected riches,
Which shara obscures.
Those lovers cannot remain silent
Who have inhaled the fragrance of truth.
Those who have plaited love into their lives,
Leave this world of falsehood.
Bulla Shah speaks the truth.
He uncovers the truth of shara.
He opens the path to the fourth level,
Which shara obscures.
Scheme | x abbc dcxE xaxx adxE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 101011101 111111111 110111111 11111110 10110 1101110 001010 11001 110100110 110101011 1111010111 11111 101101 11001110 1100110110 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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