Analysis of Wandering Singers
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
Through echoing forest and echoing street,
With lutes in our hands ever-singing we roam,
All men are our kindred, the world is our home.
Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The laughter and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and sorrowful things.
What hope shall we gather, what dreams shall we sow?
Where the wind calls our wandering footsteps we go.
No love bids us tarry, no joy bids us wait:
The voice of the wind is the voice of our fate.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011101001 11001001001 110101101011 1111010011101 101111011011 01001011011 01111001111 01001001001 11111011111 101110100111 11111011111 011011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 445 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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