Analysis of The Beginning
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
"Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?" the baby asked
its mother.
She answered, half crying, half laughing, and clasping the
baby to her breast-
"You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling.
You were in the dolls of my childhood's games; and when with
clay I made the image of my god every morning, I made the unmade
you then.
You were enshrined with our household deity, in his worship
I worshipped you.
In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, in the life of my
mother you have lived.
In the lap of the deathless Spirit who rules our home you have
been nursed for ages.
When in girlhood my heart was opening its petals, you hovered
as a fragrance about it.
Your tender softness bloomed in my youthful limbs, like a glow
in the sky before the sunrise.
Heaven's first darling, twain-born with the morning light, you
have floated down the stream of the world's life, and at last you
have stranded on my heart.
As I gaze on your face, mystery overwhelms me; you who belong
to all have become mine.
For fear of losing you I hold you tight to my breast. What
magic has snared the world's treasure in these slender arms of
mine?"
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111110101 110 110110110010 10101 101001111010110 100011111011 1110101111001011001 11 100111011000110 1101 011101101100111 10111 001101101110111 11110 101111100110110 1010011 11010101101101 0010101 1011011101011 11010110110111 110111 1111111000111101 111011 11110111111111 10110110011011 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,175 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 890 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 219 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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