Analysis of The Gardener LXXXIV: Over the Green
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Over the green and yellow rice-fields
sweep the shadows of the autumn
clouds followed by the swift-chasing
sun.
The bees forget to sip their honey;
drunken with light they foolishly hover
and hum.
The ducks in the islands of the river
clamour in joy for mere nothing.
Let none go back home, brothers,
this morning, let none go to work.
Let us take the blue sky by storm
and plunder space as we run.
Laughter floats in the air like foam
on the flood.
Brothers, let us squander our
morning in futile songs.
Scheme | ABCDEFBFCGHIDJKFL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101011 1011010 11010110 1 010111110 1011110010 01 0100101010 1011110 1111110 11011111 11101111 0101111 10100111 101 10111010 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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