Analysis of Lotus
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying,
and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the flower remained unheeded.
Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my
dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind.
That vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to
me that is was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion.
I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that this
perfect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart.
Scheme | XX XX XX XX |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 101101010111110 01111110110001001010 10100101010110110111 101011101100011 111011111100111 1111010110101011010 1111111111111011 01101100011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 54 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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