Analysis of The Gardener XXXVIII: My Love, Once upon a Time
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
My love, once upon a time your poet
launched a great epic in his mind.
Alas, I was not careful, and it struck
your ringing anklets and came to
grief.
It broke up into scraps of songs and
lay scattered at your feet.
All my cargo of the stories of old
wars was tossed by the laughing waves
and soaked in tears and sank.
You must make this loss good to me,
my love.
If my claims to immortal fame after
death are scattered, make me immortal
while I live.
And I will not mourn for my loss nor
blame you.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101110 10110011 0111110011 11010011 1 111011110 110111 111101011 11110101 010101 11111111 11 1111010110 111011010 111 011111111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 515 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 386 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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