Analysis of The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
None lives for ever, brother, and
nothing lasts for long. Keep that in
mind and rejoice.
Our life is not the one old burden,
our path is not the one long
journey.
One sole poet has not to sing one
aged song.
The flower fades and dies; but he
who wears the flower has not to
mourn for it for ever.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
There must come a full pause to
weave perfection into music.
Life droops toward its sunset to be
drowned in the golden shadows.
Love must be called from its play
to drink sorrow and be borne to the
heaven of tears.
Brother, keep that in min and
rejoice.
We hasten to gather our flowers lest
they are plundered by the passing
winds.
It quickens our blood and brightens
our eyes to snatch kisses that would
vanish if we delayed.
Our life is eager, our desires are keen,
for time tolls the bell of parting.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
There is not time for us to clasp a
thing and crush it and fling it away to
the dust.
The hours trip rapidly away, hiding
their dreams in their skirts.
Our life is short; it yields but a
few days for love.
Were it for work and drudgery it
would be endlessly long.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
Beauty is sweet to us, because she
dances to the same fleeting tune with
our lives.
Knowledge is precious to us, because
we shall never have time to
complete it.
All is done and finished in the eternal
Heaven.
But earth's flowers of illusion are
kept eternally fresh by death.
Brother, keep that in mind and
rejoice.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (29%) |
Metre | 11110100 10111110 1001 1011101110 10111011 10 111011111 11 01010111 11010111 111110 1011010 01 1110111 10100110 11011111 100101 1111111 111001110 1011 1011010 01 11011010101 11101010 1 110101010 101111011 101101 1011101001011 11101110 1011010 01 111111110 1011011011 01 01011000110 11011 101111110 1111 011101001 111001 1011010 01 101111011 101011011 101 101101101 1110111 011 11101000010 10 111010101 10100111 1011010 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,545 |
Words | 289 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 55 |
Lines Amount | 55 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 287 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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