Analysis of Sympathy
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
If I were only a little puppy, not your baby, mother dear, would
you say "No" to me if I tried to eat from your dish?
Would you drive me off, saying to me, "Get away, you naughty
little puppy?"
Then go, mother, go! I will never come to you when you call
me, and never let you feed me any more.
If I were only a little green parrot, and not your baby,
mother dear, would you keep me chained lest I should fly away?
Would you shake your finger at me and say, "What an ungrateful
wretch of a bird! It is gnawing at its chain day and night?"
The go, mother, go! I will run away into the woods; I will
never let you take me in your arms again.
Scheme | ABCCDECFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101011101011 1111111111111 111111011101110 1010 111011110111111 10101111101 1101001011001110 10111111111101 111110110111010 11011110111101 0110111101010111 10111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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