Analysis of Do better than before
DO BETTER THAN BEFORE
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Relaxing in my temple
I thought this planet remembered me
She took me back so tenderly
Arranging her crimson robe
Full of fruits and seeds,
I slept as never before
Like pebbles on the breast of river
Nothing between me and the running water
But my thoughts floated like flowers
To reach the branches of the big tree,
All night I heard the fairy kingdom
Breathing fragrance around me
And angels doing their work in darkness
All night I rose and fall in that paradise
To affirm myself to do better than before
With true nature and not just to advise.
~~~~~Jawahar Gupta ~~~~
| Scheme | A XBBXX ACCXB XBXXAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 1 0100110 111100101 11111100 0100101 11101 1111001 110101110 10011001010 11110110 110101011 111101010 1010011 0101011010 1111010110 10111110101 1110011101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 617 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 5, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on April 25, 2023
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