Analysis of The First Jasmines
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!
I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands with
these jasmines, these white jasmines.
I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth;
I have heard the liquid murmur of the river thorough the
darkness of midnight;
Autumn sunsets have come to me at the bend of a road in the
lonely waste, like a bride raising her veil to accept her lover.
Yet my memory is still sweet with the first white jasmines
that I held in my hands when I was a child.
Many a glad day has come in my life, and I have laughed with
merrymakers on festival nights.
On grey mornings of rain I have crooned many an idle song.
I have worn round my neck the evening wreath of bakulas woven
by the hand of love.
Yet my heart is sweet with the memory of the first fresh
jasmines that filled my hands when I was a child.
Scheme | ABACDEDFAGBAHIJKG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111010011111111 11111 11101010011 111010101010100 1011 101111110110100 1011011001101010 1110011110111 11101111101 100111101101111 111001 111011111101101 11111101011110 10111 11111101001011 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 664 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 166 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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