Analysis of The Gardener XXVII: Trust Love

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



"Trust love even if it brings sorrow.
Do not close up your heart."
    "Ah no, my friend, your words are
dark, I cannot understand them."
    "Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop,
while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is
strong and abiding. Let sorrowful
love wake in your eyes."
    "Ah no, my friend, your words are
dark, I cannot understand them."
    "The lotus blooms in the sight of
the sun, and loses all that it has. It
would not remain in bud in the
eternal winter mist."
    "Ah no, my friend, your words are
dark, I cannot understand them."


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Poetic Form
Metre 111011110 111111 1111111 1110011 1011101 111111101 100101100 11011 1111111 1110011 01010011 0101011111 11010100 010101 1111111 1110011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 541
Words 107
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 395
Words per stanza (avg) 99
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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