Analysis of Ocean of Forms

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



I dive down into the depth of the ocean of forms,
hoping to gain the perfect pearl of the formless.

No more sailing from harbor to harbor with this my weather-beaten boat.
The days are long passed when my sport was to be tossed on waves.

And now I am eager to die into the deathless.

Into the audience hall by the fathomless abyss
where swells up the music of toneless strings
I shall take this harp of my life.

I shall tune it to the notes of forever,
and when it has sobbed out its last utterance,
lay down my silent harp at the feet of the silent.


Scheme AA XX A XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101101011 10110011101 111011011011110101 01111111111111 011110110101 010100110101 111010111 11111111 11111011010 01111111100 1111011011010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 559
Words 111
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1, 3, 3
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 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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