Analysis of The Gardener XXIX: Speak To Me My Love
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Speak to me, my love! Tell me in
words what you sang.
The night is dark. The stars are
lost in clouds. The wind is sighing
through the leaves.
I will let loose my hair. My blue
cloak will cling round me like night. I
will clasp your head to my bosom; and
there in the sweet loneliness murmur
on your heart. I will shut my eyes
and listen. I will not look in your face.
When your words are ended, we will
sit still and silent. Only the trees will
whisper in the dark.
The night will pale. The day will
dawn. We shall look at each other's
eyes and go on our different paths.
Speak to me, my love! Tell me in
words what you sang.
Scheme | ABcdefghijkllmlnoAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 1111 0111011 10101110 101 11111111 11111111 111111100 100110010 11111111 0101111011 11111011 1101010011 10001 0111011 11111110 1011101001 11111110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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