Analysis of Paper Boats
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.
In bid black letters I write my name on them and the name of
the village where I live.
I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and
know who I am.
I load my little boats with shiuli flower from our garden, and
hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land
in the night.
I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the
little clouds setting thee white bulging sails.
I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down
the air to race with my boats!
When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my
paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.
The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading ins
their baskets full of dreams.
Scheme | ABCDEFEGHIJKLMNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111011111010 1 011101111110011 010111 111101111110 1111 1111011110110100 111110111101011 001 1111010110101010 1011011101 1111111001111 0111111 111110110110111 101110110011 010111100100101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 800 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 611 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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