Analysis of Sleep
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
In the night of weariness
let me give myself up to sleep without struggle,
resting my trust upon thee.
Let me not force my flagging spirit into a poor preparation for thy worship.
It is thou who drawest the veil of night upon the tired eyes of the day
to renew its sight in a fresher gladness of awakening.
| Scheme | XXX X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0011100 11111110110 1011011 11111101001010101110 111110111010101101 101110010110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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