Analysis of The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The fair was on before the temple.
It had rained from the early morning
and the day came to its end.
Brighter than all the gladness of
the crowd was the bright smile of
a girl who bought for a farthing a
whistle of palm leaf.
The shrill joy of that whistle floated
above all laughter and noise.
An endless throng of people came
and jostled together. The road was
muddy, the river in flood, the field
under water in ceaseless rain.
Greater than all the troubles of
the crowd was a little boy's trouble--
he had not a farthing to buy a painted
stick.
His wistful eyes gazing at the shop
made this whole meeting of men so
pitiful.
Scheme | ABCDDEFGHIJKLDAGMNOA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 011101010 111101010 0011111 1011011 0110111 011110100 10111 011111010 0111001 11011101 010010011 100100101 10100101 10110101 011010110 11101011010 1 110110101 11110111 100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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