Analysis of My Friend
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Art thou abroad on this stormy night
on thy journey of love, my friend?
The sky groans like one in despair.
I have no sleep tonight.
Ever and again I open my door and look out on
the darkness, my friend!
I can see nothing before me.
I wonder where lies thy path!
By what dim shore of the ink-black river,
by what far edge of the frowning forest,
through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading
thy course to come to me, my friend?
| Scheme | ABX AXB XX XXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101 11101111 01111001 111101 10001110110111 01011 11110011 1101111 1111101110 1111101010 1111111110 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 442 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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