Analysis of Strong Mercy
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful,
but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals;
and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple,
great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked---this sky and the light, this body and the
life and the mind---saving me from perils of overmuch desire.
There are times when I languidly linger
and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal;
but cruelly thou hidest thyself from before me.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of thy full acceptance by
refusing me ever and anon, saving me from perils of weak, uncertain desire.
Scheme | AXX AXB BXX XB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101100111100 110111111010 011101110111101 11111101101010 111111111100111000 100110111011010 11111110 011101001001111 1101111011 11111101101110101 0101100110111011010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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