Analysis of The Boat
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I must launch out my boat.
The languid hours pass by on the
shore---Alas for me!
The spring has done its flowering and taken leave.
And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger.
The waves have become clamorous, and upon the bank in the shady lane
the yellow leaves flutter and fall.
What emptiness do you gaze upon!
Do you not feel a thrill passing through the air
with the notes of the far-away song
floating from the other shore?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 010101110 10111 011111000101 011010110101011010 0110110010100101 01011001 110011101 11110110101 101101011 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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