Analysis of The Gardener LXXIX: I Often Wonder
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I often wonder where lie hidden
the boundaries of recognition between
man and the beast whose heart knows
no spoken language.
Through what primal paradise in a
remote morning of creation ran the
simple path by which their hearts
visited each other.
Those marks of their constant tread
have not been effaced though their
kinship has been long forgotten.
Yet suddenly in some wordless
music the dim memory wakes up
and the beast gazes into the man's
face with a tender trust, and the
man looks down into its eyes with
amused affection.
It seems that the two friends meet
masked, and vaguely know each other
through the disguise.
Scheme | ABCDEEFGHIAJKLEMANGO |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110101110 0100101001 1001111 11010 11101000 0110101010 1011111 100110 1111101 111111 1111010 11000110 100110011 001100101 11010100 11101111 01010 1110111 10101110 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 510 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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