This is an analysis of It's True I Went To The Market by Mirabai.

My friend, I went to the market and bought the Dark One.
You claim by night, I claim by day.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabXbXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1111001011011 11111111 100011100110111101 11111111110 100011110101111 1111110101110110010111010010 100101101101 001111111010011001 0101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

i, my, body