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
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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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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