Analysis of Roaming Cloud
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn
uselessly roaming in the sky, O my sun ever-glorious!
Thy touch has not yet melted my vapor,
making me one with thy light,
and thus I count months and years separated from thee.
If this be thy wish and if this be thy play,
then take this fleeting emptiness of mine,
paint it with colors, gild it with gold,
float it on the wanton wind and spread it in varied wonders.
And again when it shall be thy wish to end this play at night,
I shall melt and vanish away in the dark,
or it may be in a smile of the white morning,
in a coolness of purity transparent.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101110 11000111110100 1111110110 1011111 011110110011 11111011111 1111010011 111101111 111010101101010 001111111111111 11101001001 111100110110 00101100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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