Analysis of A Hundred Years Hence
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Hundred Years Hence – English Translation
A hundred years hence
Who it is
With such curiosity
Reads my poems
A hundred years hence!
Shall I be able to send you
An iota of joy of this fresh spring morning
The flower that blooms today
The songs that the birds sing
The glow of today’s setting sun
Filled with my feelings of love?
Yet for a moment
Open up your southern gate
And take your seat at the window
Look at the far horizon
And visualize in your mind’s eye —
One day a hundred years ago
A restless ecstasy drifted from the skies
And touched the heart of this world
The early spring mad with joy
Knew no bounds
Spreading its restless wings
The southern breeze blew
Carrying the scent of flowers’ pollen
All on a sudden soon
They coloured the world with a youthful glow
A hundred years ago.
That day a young poet kept awake
With an excited heart filled with songs
With so much ardour
Anxious to express so many things
Like buds of flowers straining to bloom
One day a hundred years ago.
A hundred years hence
What young poet
Sings songs in your homes!
For him
I send my tidings of joy of this spring.
Let it echo for a moment
In your spring, in your heartbeats,
In the humming of the bees
In the rustling of the leaves
A hundred years hence.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110010 01011 111 110100 1110 01011 11110111 101011111110 0101101 011011 01101101 1111011 11010 1011101 01111010 1101010 0100111 11010101 01010010101 0101111 0101111 111 101101 01011 1000111010 110101 1100110101 010101 110110101 110101111 1111 101011101 111101011 11010101 01011 1110 11011 11 1111011111 11101010 011011 0010101 0010101 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,257 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 11, 22, 10 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
About this poem
A Bengali poem written in 1302 and translated into English by Rabindranath Tragore.
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