Analysis of I Found A Few Old Letters

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



XIV
I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in thy box—a few small toys for thy memory to play with. With a timorous heart thou didst try to steal these trifles from the turbulent stream of time which washes away planets and stars, and didst say, “These are only mine!” Alas, there is no one now who can claim them—who is able to pay their price; yet they are still here. Is there no love in this world to rescue thee from utter loss, even like this love of thine that saved these letters with such fond care?
O woman, thou camest for a moment to my side and touched me with the great mystery of the woman that there is in the heart of creation—she who ever gives back to God his own outflow of sweetness; who is the eternal love and beauty and youth; who dances in bubbling streams and sings in the morning light; who with heaving waves suckles the thirsty earth and whose mercy melts in rain; in whom the eternal one breaks in two in joy that can contain itself no more and overflows in the pain of love.


Scheme ABA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1 110111011100100110111111001111010011111111010100111110011001011111010111111111111101111111111111011110111011011111111101111 1101110101110111011001010111001101011101111111110110010101001110010010100101111011010101101010100101101011101011101000111
Characters 1,033
Words 200
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 267
Words per line (avg) 66
Letters per stanza (avg) 801
Words per stanza (avg) 197
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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