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
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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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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