Analysis of Stray Birds 71 - 80
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
THE woodcutter's axe begged for its handle from the tree.
The tree gave it.
IN my solitude of heart
I feel the sigh of this widowed evening
veiled with mist and rain.
CHASTITY
is a wealth that comes from
abundance of love.
THE mist,
like love,
plays upon the heart of the hills
and brings out surprises of beauty.
WE read the world wrong
and say that it deceives us.
THE poet wind is out over the sea
and the forest to seek his own voice.
EVERY child
comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged
of man.
THE grass seeks her crowd in the earth.
The tree seeks his solitude of the sky.
MAN barricades against himself.
YOUR voice, my friend,
wanders in my heart,
like the muffled sound of the sea
among these listening pines.
Scheme | AX BXX AXC XCXA XX AX XXXX XX X XBAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111110101 0111 011011 1101111010 11101 100 101111 01011 01 11 10101101 011010110 11011 011111 0101111001 001011111 1001 11010 11111010 11 01101001 011110101 1100101 1111 10011 10101101 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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