Analysis of Lover's Gifts XXXIX: There Is a Looker-On
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
There is a looker-on who sits behind my eyes. I seems he has seen
things in ages and worlds beyond memory's shore, and those
forgotten sights glisten on the grass and shiver on the leaves. He
has seen under new veils the face of the one beloved, in twilight
hours of many a nameless star. Therefore his sky seems to ache with
the pain of countless meetings and partings, and a longing pervades
this spring breeze, -the longing that is full of the whisper of
ages without beginning.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111011111111 101001011101 0101101010101011 111011011010101 1011001011111111 011101001001001 11101011110101 1001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 482 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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