Analysis of The Gardener LXI: Peace, My Heart
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Peace, my heart, let the time for
the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain
into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end
in the folding of the wings over the
nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be
gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a
moment, and say your last words in
silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp
to light you on your way.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJGKLMN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 01011 1111011010 1110110001 011 1011011 0010101100 1 10111111 101010101 111100110 10011110 10 111101111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 332 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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