Analysis of Poems On Man

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Man goes into the noisy crowd
to drown his own clamour of silence.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly.
For life is a creative idea;
it can only find itself in changing forms.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything
but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself,
to ideas which are larger than his individual life,
the idea of his country,
of humanity,
of God.


Scheme XX AXX XXXAAX
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 11111110 110101111100 1110010010 11101010101 10101001101010 101001111110101 101011101101001 00101110 10100 11
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 395
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 6
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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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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