The poem is composed of 14 stanzas with four lines per stanza. No verse in the three stanza lyrics is repeated. Each couplet is separated as its own [[stanza]]. Obbink provides a reconstruction of a single initial stanza of the poem. The second stanza is sung in Sesotho. The speech also alludes to in the second stanza of the speech. This quotation comes from Sutasoma canto 139, stanza 5. The fourth line is thus often the most formulaic of the stanza. The laisse is therefore an assonal, not a rhyming stanza. Sometimes a fifth stanza called Bhoga is included. The following extract is from the second stanza of the song. An ode (from ) is a type of lyrical stanza. The first stanza establishes a patriotic element. The solemness follows that in the first stanza. His poetry is in the Triveni type of stanza.