Analysis of Seashore
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead
and the restless water is boisterous.
On the seashore of endless worlds
the children meet with shouts and dances.
They build their houses with sand
and they play with empty shells.
With withered leaves they weave their boats
and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.
They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets.
Pearl fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships,
while children gather pebbles and scatter them again.
They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.
The sea surges up with laughter
and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach.
Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children,
even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle.
The sea plays with children,
and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach.
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky,
ships get wrecked in the trackless water,
death is abroad and children play.
On the seashore of endless worlds is the
great meeting of children.
Scheme | Axxbx xxxxb cxxc dEfxfE Axdxxf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101101 010011100101 0010101100 1011101 010111010 1111011 0111101 11011111 0100111011 1011110111 1111111111111 110111101011 1101010010101 111110101111111 01101110 011011011 11011100101010 10101011001010 011110 011011011 1011101101 1010011 11100110 11010101 101110110 110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,151 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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