Analysis of From Afar
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The 'I' that floats along the wave of time,
From a distance I watch him.
With the dust and the water,
With the fruit and the flower,
With the All he is rushing forward.
He is always on the surface,
Tossed by the waves and dancing to the rhythm
Of joy and suffering.
The least loss makes him suffer,
The least wound hurts him--
Him I see from afar.
That 'I' is not my real self;
I am still within myself,
I do not float in the stream of death.
I am free, I am desireless,
I am peace, I am illumined--
Him I see from afar.
Scheme | abccdefgcbHiijekH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010111 1010111 1010010 1010010 101111010 1111010 11010101010 110100 0111110 01111 111101 1111111 111011 111100111 111111 11111010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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