Analysis of Poems On Beauty
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Beauty is truth's smile
when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony
which is in the universal being;
truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind.
| Scheme | XX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 111011000110 1010001101100 110001010 1001010100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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