Analysis of Lover's Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The evening was lonely for me, and I was reading a book till my
heart became dry, and it seemed to me that beauty was a thing
fashioned by the traders in words. Tired I shut the book and
snuffed the candle. In a moment the room was flooded with
moonlight.
Spirit of Beauty, how could you, whose radiance overbrims the
sky, stand hidden behind a candle's tiny flame? How could a few
vain words from a book rise like a mist, and veil her whose voice
has hushed the heart of earth into ineffable calm?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011011011100111 101101111110101 101010011011010 10100010011101 1 10110111110010 111001011011101 11101110101011 1101110101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 502 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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