Analysis of Lover's Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here by the Pool
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
She dwelt here by the pool with its landing-stairs in ruins. Many
an evening she had watched the moon made dizzy by the shaking of
bamboo leaves, and on many a rainy day the smell of the wet earth
had come to her over the young shoots of rice.
Her pet name is known here among those date-palm groves and
in the courtyards where girls sit and talk while stitching their
winter quilts. The water in this pool keeps in its depth the memory
of her swimming limbs, and her wet feet had left their marks, day
after day, on the footpath leading to the village.
The women who come to-day with their vessels to the water have
all seen her smile over simple jests, and the old peasant, taking
his bullocks to their bath, used to stop at her door every day to
greet her.
Many a sailing-boat passes by this village; many a traveller
takes rest beneath that banyan tree; the ferry-boat crosses to
yonder ford carrying crowds to the market; but they never notice
this spot by the village road, near the pool with its ruined
landing-stairs,-where dwelt she whom I love.
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Metre | 1111011110101010 1101110111010101 01101100101011011 11101001111 0111110111110 001111011101 10101001110110100 10101001111111 101101101010 0101111111010101 1101101010011010 11011111110110011 10 100101101110100100 110111010101101 10110011010111010 11101011011110 101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,057 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 835 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 195 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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