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.


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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

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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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