Analysis of Lover's Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Last night in the garden I offered you my youth's foaming wine. You
lifted the cup to your lips, you shut your eyes and smiled while
I raised your veil, unbound your tresses, drawing down upon my
breast your face sweet with its silence, last night when the moon's
dream overflowed the world of slumber.
To-day in the dew-cooled calm of the dawn you are walking to
God's temple, bathed and robed in white, with a basketful of
flowers in your hand. I stand aside in the shade under the tree,
with my head bent, in the calm of the dawn by the lonely road to
the temple.
Scheme | ABCDEAFGAH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1100101101111011 10011111111011 111101110101011 1111111011101 10101110 110011110111101 110101011011 1001111010011001 1111001101101011 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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