Analysis of The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
It was mid-day when you went
away .
The sun was strong in the sky.
I had done my work and sat alone
on my balcony when you went away.
Fitful gusts came winnowing
through the smells of may distant
fields.
The doves cooed tireless in the shade,
and a bee strayed in my room hum-
ming the news of many distant fields.
The village slept in the noonday
heat. The road lay deserted.
In sudden fits the rustling of the
leaves rose and died.
I gazed at the sky and wove in the
blue the letters of a name I had known,
while the village slept in the noonday
heat.
I had forgotten to braid my hair.
The languid breeze played with it upon
my cheek.
The river ran unruffled under the
shady bank.
The lazy white clouds did not move.
I had forgotten to braid my hair.
It was mid-day when you went
away.
The dust of the road was hot and
the fields panting.
The doves cooed among the dense
leaves.
I was alone in my balcony when you
went away.
Scheme | ABcdbefghigajklkdamNopkqrNABsetuvb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 01 0111001 111110101 1110011101 101110 1011110 1 011100001 00110111 101110101 0101001 1011010 010101010 1101 111010100 1010101111 10101001 1 110101111 010111101 11 0101010100 101 01011111 110101111 1111111 01 01101110 0110 0110101 1 11010110011 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 964 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 720 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 184 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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