Analysis of Superior

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Mother, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!
    She does not know the difference between the lights in the
streets and the stars.
    When we play at eating with pebbles, she thinks they are real
food, and tries to put them into her mouth.
    When I open a book before her and ask her to learn her a, b,
c, she tears the leaves with her hands and roars for joy at
nothing; this is your baby's way of doing her lesson.
    When I shake my head at her in anger and scold her and call
her naughty, she laughs and thinks it great fun.
    Everybody knows that father is away, but if in play I call
aloud "Father," she looks about her in excitement and thinks that
father is near.
    When I hold my class with the donkeys that our washer man
brings to carry away the clothes and I warn her that I am the
schoolmaster, she will scream for no reason and call me dada.
    Your baby wants to catch the moon. She is so funny; she calls
Ganesh Ganush.
    Mother, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!


Scheme AbcdefghihigjkblmaA
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011011101010 11110100010100 1001 11111011011111 1011110101 11100101001011001 1110110101111 10111101110010 111111001001001 0101101111 1001110101110111 0110110100010011 1011 111111010110101 1110010101101110 1011111100111 110111011111011 11 1011011011101010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,007
Words 198
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 763
Words per stanza (avg) 195
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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