Analysis of Lover's Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Dying, you have left behind you the great sadness of the Eternal
in my life. You have painted my thought's horizon with the sunset
colours of your departure, leaving a track of tears across the
earth to love's heaven. Clasped in your dear arms, life and death
united in me in a marriage bond.
I think I can see you watching there in the balcony with your
lamp lighted, where the end and the beginning of all things meet.
My world went hence through the doors that you opened-you holding
the cup of death to my lips, filling it with life from your own.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111011011010010 011111011010101 111010100111010 1111010111101 0100100101 1111111010010011 110101000101111 11111011110110 011111110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 555 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 435 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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