Analysis of Twelve O'Clock
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Mother, I do want to leave off my lessons now. I have been at my
book all the morning.
You say it is only twelve o'clock. Suppose it isn't any later;
can't you ever think it is afternoon when it is only twelve
o'clock?
I can easily imagine now that the sun has reached the edge of
that rice-field, and the old fisher-woman is gathering herbs for
her supper by the side of the pond.
I can just shut my eyes and think that the shadows are growing
darker under the madar tree, and the water in the pond looks shiny
black.
If twelve o'clock can come in the night, why can't the night
come when it is twelve o'clock?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBIJKE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111110111111 11010 111110101011101010 111011101111101 01 11100010110111011 1110011010110011 010101101 11111101101110 101001010010001110 1 1101110011101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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