Analysis of The Source

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



The sleep that flits on baby's eyes-does anybody know from where
it comes? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling where,
in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit with
glow-worms, there hang two shy buds of enchantment. From there it
comes to kiss baby's eyes.
    The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps-does
anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumour that a young
pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn
cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew
washed morning-the smile that flickers on baby's lips when he
sleeps.
    The sweet, soft freshness hat blooms on baby's limbs-does
anybody know where it was hidden so long? Yes, when the mother was
a young girl it lay pervading her heart in tender and silent
mystery of love-the sweet, soft freshness that has bloomed on
baby's limbs.


Scheme AABCDEFGHIJEKLMN
Poetic Form
Metre 0111110111000111 11111001111101 00101001110101011 11111111010111 111101 0111011011111 10001111111100101 11101011011010010 10101111001101 11001110110111 1 011101111011 100011111011110101 0111101001010010 10011011101111 101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 878
Words 162
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 691
Words per stanza (avg) 160
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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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