Analysis of Lover's Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust dance
and whirl like children. Man's mind is aroused by their shouts; his
thoughts long to be the playmates of things.
Our dreams, drifting in the stream of the vague, stretch their
arms to clutch the earth, -their efforts stiffen into bricks and
stones, and thus the city of man is built.
Voices come swarming from the past,-seeking answers from the
living moments. Beats of their wings fill the air with tremulous
shadows, and sleepless thoughts in our minds leave their nests to
take flight across the desert of dimness, in the passionate thirst
for forms. They are lampless pilgrims, seeking the shore of light,
to find themselves in things. They will be lured into poets's
rhymes, they will be housed in the towers of the town not yet
planned, they have their call to arms from the battle fields of the
future, they are bidden to join hands in the strife of peace yet
to come.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKALGLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101100101011 01110111011111 11110111 1011000110111 11101110100110 1010101111 10110101101010 101011111011100 1010101011111 110101011001001 1111110100111 1101011111011 11111001010111 11111111010110 101110111001111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 942 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 748 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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