Analysis of How do you
Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)
How do you,
Asks the chief of police,
Patrol a city
Where the butcher shops
Are guarded by vultures;
Where bulls get pregnant,
Cows are barren,
And calves give milk
Three times a day;
Where mice are boatmen
And tomcats the boats
They row;
Where frogs keep snakes
As watchdogs,
And jackals
Go after lions?
Does anyone know
What I’m talking about?
Says Kabir.
| Scheme | XAXXXXBXXBXCXXAX CXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 101101 01010 10101 110110 11110 1110 0111 1101 1111 0101 11 1111 11 01 11010 1101 111001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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