Analysis of The Sailor
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The boat of the boatman Madhu is moored at the wharf of Rajgunj.
It is uselessly laden with jute, and has been lying there idle
for ever so long.
If he would only lend me his boat, I should man her with a
hundred oars, and hoist sails, five or six or seven.
I should never steer her to stupid markets.
I should sail the seven seas and the thirteen rivers of
fairyland.
But, mother, you won't weep for me in a corner.
I am not going into the forest like Ramachandra to come back
only after fourteen years.
I shall become the prince of the story, and fill my boat with
whatever I like.
I shall take my friend Ashu with me. We shall sail merrily
across the ever seas and the thirteen rivers of fairyland.
We shall set sail in the early morning light.
When at noontide you are bathing at the pond, we shall be in
the land of a strange king.
We shall pass the ford of Tirpurni, and leave behind us the
desert of Tepantar.
When we come back it will be getting dark, and I shall tell
you of all that we have seen.
I shall cross the seven seas and the thirteen rivers of
fairyland.
Scheme | abcdefgHijklmnhopqdirsgH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101011110111 111101101110110 11011 111101111111010 101011111110 11101011010 11101010011101 10 110111110010 111100101011111 1010111 110101101001111 1011 11111111111100 010101001110110 11110010101 11111101011110 011011 1110111010110 1011 11111111010111 1111111 11101010011101 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,110 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 836 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 212 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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