Analysis of Salutation
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
In one salutation to thee, my God,
let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet.
Like a rain-cloud of July
hung low with its burden of unshed showers
let all my mind bend down at thy door in one salutation to thee.
Let all my songs gather together their diverse strains into a single current
and flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to thee.
Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day
back to their mountain nests
let all my life take its voyage to its eternal home
in one salutation to thee.
Scheme | XX XXA XA XXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111 11110110111111 101111 1111101110 11111111101111 11111001010110101010 0110111001111 10111110101 111101 11111110110101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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