Analysis of Stream Of Life
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Scheme | XA BXA BX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111111101 110101001010 110111101101101 01111 0101100111010 1101111100101011 01101001 11111110010111111 0111101111010011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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