Analysis of Stray Birds 81 - 90
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
WHAT is this unseen flame of darkness
whose sparks are the stars?
LET life be beautiful like summer flowers
and death like autumn leaves.
HE who wants to do good knocks at the gate;
he who loves
finds the gate open.
IN death the many becomes one;
in life the one becomes many.
Religion will be one
when God is dead.
THE artist is the lover of Nature,
therefore he is her slave
and her master.
'HOW far are you from me, O Fruit?'
'I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.'
THIS longing is for the one who is felt in the dark,
but not seen in the day.
'YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,
' said the dewdrop to the lake.
THE scabbard is content to be dull
when it protects the keenness of the sword.
IN darkness
the One appears as uniform;
in the light
the One appears as manifold.
Scheme | AX XX XXB BXBX CXC XC XX XXX XX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011110 11101 11110011010 011101 1111111101 111 10110 01010011 01010110 010111 1111 0101010110 11101 0010 11111111 1110011110 1101101111001 111001 1101111100101 11010111101 101101 010110111 110101101 010 0101110 001 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 851 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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