Analysis of Lover's Gifts XVIII: Your Days
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Your days will be full of cares, if you must give me your heart.
My house by the cross-roads has its doors open and my mind is
absent, -for I sing.
I shall never be made to answer for it, if you must give me
your heart. If I pledge my word to you in tunes now, and am too
much in earnest to keep it when music is silent, you must forgive
me; for the law laid down in May is best broken in December.
Do not always keep remembering it, if you must give me your
heart. When your eyes sing with love, and your voice ripples with
laughter, my answers to your questions will be wild, and not
miserly accurate in facts, -they are to be believed for ever and
then forgotten for good.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111111111 111011111100111 10111 1110111101111111 111111111011011 10101111101101101 1101110111100010 111101001111111 1111111011101 10110111011101 100100011111011100 101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 680 |
| Words | 139 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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