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 |
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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