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The Song Of Princess Zeb-Un-Nissa In Praise Of Her Own Beauty

Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)

WHEN from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their fragrance like a wail.

Or if perchance one perfumed tress
Be lowered to the wind's caress,
The honeyed hyacinths complain,
And languish in a sweet distress.

And, when I pause, still groves among,
(Such loveliness is mine) a throng
Of nightingales awake and strain
Their souls into a quivering song.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABA CCBC XDBD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 436
Words 77
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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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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