Analysis of Poems On Life
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it.
Let the dead have the immortality of fame,
but the living the immortality of love.
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation into a
harmony with the whole.
Life, like a child, laughs,
shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
| Scheme | XX XX XXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 1111101 10110010011 10100010011 11011010010 111001010010 100101 11011 1011011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 306 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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