Analysis of Closed Path

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



I thought that my voyage had come to its end
at the last limit of my power,---that the path before me was closed,
that provisions were exhausted
and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity.

But I find that thy will knows no end in me.
And when old words die out on the tongue,
new melodies break forth from the heart;
and where the old tracks are lost,
new country is revealed with its wonders.


Scheme XXXA AXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11111011111 10110111010101111 10100010 0011111000100100 11111111101 011111101 110011101 0101111 1101011110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 414
Words 82
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 5
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 159
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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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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