Analysis of The Gardener XLV: To the Guests
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
To the guests that must go bid
God's speed and brush away all traces
of their steps.
Take to your bosom with a smile
what is easy and simple and near.
To-day is the festival of phantoms
that know not when they die.
Let your laughter be but a meaning-
less mirth like twinkles of light on
the ripples.
Let your life lightly dance on the
edges of Time like dew on the tip of
a leaf.
Strike in chords from your harp
fitful momentary rhythms.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (53%) |
Metre | 1011111 110101110 111 11110101 111001001 1110100110 111111 111011010 11110111 010 11110110 1011111011 01 101111 1010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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