Analysis of The Merchant
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Imagine, mother, that you are to stay at home and I am to travel
into strange lands.
Imagine that my boat is ready at the landing fully laden.
Now think well, mother, before you say what I shall bring for
you when I come back.
Mother, do you want heaps and heaps of gold?
There, by the banks of golden streams, fields are full of
golden harvest.
And in the shade of the forest path the golden champ flower
drop on the ground.
I will gather them all for you in many hundred baskets.
Mother, do you want pearls big as the raindrops of autumn?
I shall cross to the pearl island shore.
There in the early morning light pearls tremble on the meadow
flowers, pearls drop on the grass, and pearls are scattered on the
sand in spray by the wild sea-waves.
My brother shall have a pair of horses with wings to fly among
the clouds.
For father I shall bring a magic pen that, without his
knowing, will write of itself.
For you, mother, I must have the casket and jewel that cost
seven kings their kingdom.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLDMNOPQRSTL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101111111011110 0111 01011111010101010 11110011111111 11111 1011110111 110111011111 1010 000110101010110 1101 111011110101010 1011111101110 111101101 10010101110101 10111010111010 10110111 1101101110111101 01 11011101011011 1011101 111011101001011 101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 982 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 778 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 190 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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