Analysis of The Gardener LXXV: At Midnight
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
At midnight the would-be ascetic
announced:
"This is the time to give up my
home and seek for God. Ah, who has
held me so long in delusion here?"
God whispered, "I," but the ears
of the man were stopped.
With a baby asleep at her breast
lay his wife, peacefully sleeping on
one side of the bed.
The man said, "Who are ye that
have fooled me so long?"
The voice said again, "They are
God," but he heard it not.
The baby cried out in its dream,
nestling close to its mother.
God commanded, "Stop, fool, leave
not thy home," but still he heard not.
God sighed and complained, "Why
does my servant wander to seek me,
forsaking me?"
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQNCRR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010 01 11011111 10111111 111100101 1101101 10101 101001101 111100101 11101 0111111 11111 0110111 111111 01011011 1011110 1010111 11111111 110011 111010111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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