Ab Vo Karam Karein Ya Sitam by Sahir Ludhianvi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ab Vo Karam Karein Ya Sitam that begins with:

Ab vo karam kareiN k sitam maiN nashe meiN houN
mujhko na koi hosh na Gham maiN nashe meiN houN...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101101111 10111111111 11111101101 101110100111 1011000101111 1100111111010 101101101010 11110101111 1010111011 111011011 01111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; houn, main are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines houn, ke, nahiin, vaaste are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word houn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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