Analysis of On The Nature Of Love
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where
or with whom - of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith - that a lifetime's bliss
will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.
Scents, touches, sounds, snatches of songs
brush us, pass us, give us delightful shocks.
Then peradventure there's a flash of lightning:
whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.
I call that person and cry: `This life is blest!
for your sake such miles have I traversed!'
All those others who came close and moved off
in the darkness - I don't know if they exist or not.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110010111 010101100101 11111001011 111111101 111111011 10110101010111 11011011 1111110101 11101110 0101111011011 11110011111 111111110 1110111011 0010111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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