Analysis of Baby's World

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very
own world.
    I know it has stars that talk to him, and a sky that stoops
down to his face to amuse him with its silly clouds and rainbows.
    Those who make believe to be dumb, and look as if they never
could move, come creeping to his window with their stories and with
trays crowded with bright toys.
    I wish I could travel by the road that crosses baby's mind,
and out beyond all bounds;
    Where messengers run errands for no cause between the kingdoms
of kings of no history;
    Where Reason makes kites of her laws and flies them, the Truth
sets Fact free from its fetters.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJAKL
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101010001111010 11 11111111100111 111110111110101 111011110111110 111101110111001 110111 111110101110101 010111 110011011101010 1111100 1101110101101 1111110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 649
Words 126
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 497
Words per stanza (avg) 124
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 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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