Analysis of The Kiss
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Lips' language to lips' ears.
Two drinking each other's heart, it seems.
Two roving loves who have left home,
pilgrims to the confluence of lips.
Two waves rise by the law of love
to break and die on two sets of lips.
Two wild desires craving each other
meet at last at the body's limits.
Love's writing a song in dainty letters,
layers of kiss-calligraphy on lips.
Plucking flowers from two sets of lips
perhaps to thread them into a chain later.
This sweet union of lips
is the red marriage-bed of a pair of smiles.
| Scheme | ABCDEDFGHDDFDI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 110110111 11011111 101010011 11110111 110111111 1101010110 111101010 1100101010 1011010011 101011111 01111010110 111011 10110110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 512 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 404 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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