Analysis of Old And New
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.
Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own.
Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter;
I forget that there abides the old in the new,
and that there also thou abidest.
Through birth and death, in this world or in others,
wherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same,
the one companion of my endless life
who ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar.
When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut.
Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose
the bliss of the touch of the one
in the play of many.
Scheme | AXB BXA XXXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111111 11101101111 1110101010101010 110101111111101010 101110101001 0111011 11010111010 01011111101 0101011101 110111111110010 1111110011111111 11111111101 01101101 001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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