Analysis of Light

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Light, my light, the world-filling light,
the eye-kissing light,
heart-sweetening light!

Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the center of my life;
the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love;
the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth.

The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light.
Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light.

The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling,
and it scatters gems in profusion.

Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling,
and gladness without measure.
The heaven's river has drowned its banks
and the flood of joy is abroad.


Scheme AAA XXX AA BX BXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11101101 01101 11001 101101101010111 01111001111 0110011110101001 01011110111 10011110110111 0111001111001110 01110010 111111110 010110 010101111 00111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 642
Words 113
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2, 2, 4
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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