Analysis of The Astronomer
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I only said, "When in the evening the round full moon gets
entangled among the beaches of that Dadam tree, couldn't somebody
catch it?"
But dada laughed at me and said, "Baby, you are the silliest
child I have ever known. The moon is ever so far from us, how could
anybody catch it?"
I said, "Dada, how foolish you are! When mother looks out of
her window and smiles down at us playing, would you call her far
away?"
Still dada said, "You are a stupid child! But, baby where
could you find a net big enough to catch the moon with?"
I said, "Surely you could catch it with your hands."
But dada laughed and said, "You are the silliest child I have
known. If it came nearer, you would see how big the moon is."
I said, "Dada, what nonsense they teach at your school! When
mother bends her face down to kiss us, does her face look very
big?"
But still dada says, "You are a stupid child."
Scheme | ABCDECFGHIJKLMNBOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001001111 0100101011111010 11 111110110110100 11110101110111111 100011 11111011110111 010011111011101 01 1111101011101 1110110111011 11101111111 11101110100111 11111011111011 111110111111 101011111101110 1 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 667 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 172 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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