Analysis of When Day Is Done
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
If the day is done,
if birds sing no more,
if the wind has flagged tired,
then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me,
even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep
and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk.
From the traveler,
whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended,
whose garment is torn and dust-laden,
whose strength is exhausted,
remove shame and poverty,
and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night.
Scheme | AXXBXX XCACBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 11111 1011110 11011101011 1011110110111 0100101010101011 10100 11101011001010110 110110110 111010 0110100 0011110101001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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