Analysis of Baby's Way

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.
    It is not for nothing that he does not leave us.
    He loves to rest his head on mother's bosom, and cannot ever
bear to lose sight of her.
    Baby know all manner of wise words, though few on earth can
understand their meaning.
    It is not for nothing that he never wants to speak.
    The one thing he wants is to learn mother's words from
mother's lips. That is why he looks so innocent.
    Baby had a heap of gold and pearls, yet he came like a beggar
on to this earth.
    It is not for nothing he came in such a disguise.
    This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly
helpless, so that he may beg for mother's wealth of love.
    Baby was so free from every tie in the land of the tiny
crescent moon.
    It was not for nothing he gave up his freedom.
    He knows that there is room for endless joy in mother's little
corner of a heart, and it is sweeter far than liberty to be caught
and pressed in her dear arms.
    Baby never knew how to cry. He dwelt in the land of perfect
bliss.
    It is not for nothing he has chosen to shed tears.
    Though with the smile of his dear face he draws mother's
yearning heart to him, yet his little cries over tiny troubles
weave the double bond of pity and love.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110101011111110110 111110111111 1111111101001010 111110 10111011111111 01110 1111101110111 011111111011 101111111100 1010111011111010 1111 1111101101001 11101010111100 1011111110111 10111110010011010 101 111110111110 111111110101010 101010111011100111 010011 1010111111001101 1 1111101110111 110111111110 1011111101101010 1010111001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,280
Words 251
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 963
Words per stanza (avg) 249
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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