Savitri: the Light of the Supreme
Re: 01: Some aspects of Inspiration and Technique in the Poetry of Savitri
by RY Deshpande
Let us take the following lines from p. 43:
A glory and a rapture and a charm, The All-Blissful sat unknown within the heart; Earth’s pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight.
We could scan this as follows:
A glor'|y and| a rap'|ture and| a charm', | The All'-Bliss'|ful sat'| unknown'| within' |the heart'; | Earth’s' pains'| were the ran'|som of| its pris'|oned delight'. |
The first line is a beautiful combination of iambs and pyrrhics which gives a happy bouncing and expectant feel for the arrival of the ‘All-Blissful’. In the third, there is as if a kind of fulfillment of this with the opening spondee saying ‘yes, yes’, and the two anapaests in it echoing back to the happiness it feels. The middle line has an unusual opening foot, antibacchius, short-long-long, although it could be read as an anapaest with unstressed ‘All’; but the ‘All’ is pretty powerful to be considered so. We could see some more examples of this separately. ~ RYD
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