Analysis of Journey Home
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my
voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself,
and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own,
and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!'
The question and the cry `Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand
streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance `I am!'
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Metre | 011110111001111 111101001011110011 1010111101111001010 1101101111011 01101011001110100100101 01001111100100111111 011110110101110101101 1111010111101111 0100011110111010 1010011011001011 |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 58 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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