Analysis of The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
No, my friends, I shall never be an
ascetic, whatever you may say.
I shall never be and ascetic if she
does not take the vow with me.
It is my firm resolve that if I
cannot find a shady shelter and a
companion for my penance, I shall
never turn ascetic.
No, my friends, I shall never leave
my hearth and home, and retire into
the forest solitude, if rings no merry
laughter in its echoing shade and if
the end of no saffron mantle flutters
in the wind; if its silence is not
deepened by soft whispers.
I shall never be an ascetic.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFGHICJKLKG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011 01010111 11101001011 1110111 111101111 1010101000 010111011 101010 11111101 110100101 0101011110 1001100101 0111101010 001111011 101110 111011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 542 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 412 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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