Analysis of The Gardener LXIV: I Spent My Day
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I spent my day on the scorching
hot dust of the road.
Now, in the cool of the evening, I
knock at the door of the inn. It is
deserted and in ruins.
A grim ashath tree spreads its
hungry clutching roots through the
gaping fissures of the walls.
Days have been when wayfarers
came here to wash their weary feet.
They spread their mats in the
courtyard in the dim light of the
early moon, and sat and talked of
strange lands.
They woke refreshed in the morning
when birds made them glad, and
friendly flowers nodded their heads
at them from the wayside.
But no lighted lamp awaited me
when I came here.
The black smudges of smoke left by
many a forgotten evening lamp stare,
like blind eyes, from the wall.
Fireflies flit in the bush near the
dried-up pond, and bamboo branches
fling their shadows on the grass-
grown path.
I am the guest of no one at the end
of my day.
The long night is before me, and I
am tired.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHDIGGJKALMNOPCQRGSTUVWCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010 11101 100110101 110110111 0100010 011111 1010110 1010101 11111 11111101 111100 1001110 10101011 11 11010010 111110 10101011 11101 111010101 1111 0111111 1000101011 111101 10100110 11100110 111101 11 1101111101 111 011101101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 895 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 714 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 177 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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