Analysis of Lamp Of Love
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Light, oh where is the light?
Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!
There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame--is such thy fate, my heart?
Ah, death were better by far for thee!
Misery knocks at thy door,
and her message is that thy lord is wakeful,
and he calls thee to the love-tryst through the darkness of night.
The sky is overcast with clouds and the rain is ceaseless.
I know not what this is that stirs in me--I know not its meaning.
A moment's flash of lightning drags down a deeper gloom on my sight,
and my heart gropes for the path to where the music of the night calls me.
Light, oh where is the light!
Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!
It thunders and the wind rushes screaming through the void.
The night is black as a black stone.
Let not the hours pass by in the dark.
Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.
Scheme | AB xc xxa xx ac ABxxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1011010101010 1101110010101111111 110101111 1001111 0010111111 01111011101011 0111011001110 1111111101111110 0101110110101111 01111011101010111 111101 1011010101010 1100011010101 01111011 1101011001 100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 853 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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