Analysis of One Day In Spring....

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



One day in spring, a woman came
In my lonely woods,
In the lovely form of the Beloved.
Came, to give to my songs, melodies,
To give to my dreams, sweetness.
Suddenly a wild wave
Broke over my heart's shores
And drowned all language.
To my lips no name came,
She stood beneath the tree, turned,
Glanced at my face, made sad with pain,
And with quick steps, came and sat by me.
Taking my hands in hers, she said:
'You do not know me, nor I you-
I wonder how this could be?'
I said:
'We two shall build, a bridge for ever
Between two beings, each to the other unknown,
This eager wonder is at the heart of things.'

The cry that is in my heart is also the cry of her heart;
The thread with which she binds me binds her too.
Her have I sought everywhere,
Her have I worshipped within me,
Hidden in that worship she has sought me too.
Crossing the wide oceans, she came to steal my heart.
She forgot to return, having lost her own.
Her own charms play traitor to her,
She spreads her net, knowing not
Whether she will catch or be caught.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 01101 001011001 111111100 1111110 100011 110111 01110 111111 1101011 11111111 011110111 10110011 11111111 1101111 11 111101110 011101101001 11010110111 011101111001101 0111111101 011110 01110011 10011011111 100110111111 10110110101 01111010 1101101 10111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,011
Words 207
Sentences 12
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 19, 10
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 393
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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