Analysis of The Jumma Musjid. - The Principal Mosque at Agra
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Yon mosque alone remains to tell,
How glorious once did Agra rise,
When gilded roof and pinnacle
Met morning half-way in the skies.
Two mighty empires load the plain,
With palace, mosque, and tomb, and tower:
Out on the works man rears in vain!
Out on the vanity of power!
A conqueror poured forth wealth and blood,
And dome and temple rose sublime ;—
Now, what remains where Agra stood,
But dust and ruins, Death and Time!
• Captain Elliot says, " that a single century, or even a shorter space of time, is sufficient to reduce the streets and bazaars of an Indian city to a level with the earth from whence they rose, and to become almost as if they had never been ; while the larger mosques and tombs remain with little deterioration, and stand as melancholy monuments of the earlier splendour and prosperity of the Eastern capitals." " The city of Agra was greatly embellished by the Emperor Akbar, and it certainly contains some of the most beautiful remains of architecture that are to be found in India, where the face of a vast country is covered with the ruins of two great empires." " Some of the tombs have been converted into dwelling-houses by the English inhabitants."
It was remarked by Bishop Heber, that " Vanity of vanities was surely never written in more legible characters than on the dilapidated arcades of Delhi." He might have said the same of Agra.
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Metre | 11010111 110011101 11010100 11011001 110100101 110101010 11011101 110100110 010011101 01010101 11011101 11010101 10100110101001100101111010101010011110010101010111110101111111011010101011100100001110010010100100100101010001011011001010100100110001110110001110011111010010110110110101011110011011101001101010100100 11011101011001100110101001100100110010001110111101110 |
Characters | 1,364 |
Words | 249 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 78 |
Words per line (avg) | 18 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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