Analysis of Lover's Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I would ask for still more, if I had the sky with all its stars,
and the world with its endless riches; but I would be content with
the smallest corner of this earth if only she were mine.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 111111111011111 0011110101111101 01010111110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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