Analysis of The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Day after day he comes and goes
away.
    Go, and give him a flower from my
hair, my friend.
    If he asks who was it that sent it, I
entreat you do not tell him my name--
for he only comes and goes away.
    He sits on the dust under the tree.
    Spread there a seat with flowers and
leaves, my friend.
    His eyes are sad, and they bring
sadness to my heart.
    He does not speak what he has in
mind; he only comes and goes away.


Scheme ABCDCEBFGDHIJB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 01 101101011 111 1111111111 11111111 111010101 111011001 11011100 111 1111011 10111 11111110 111010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 431
Words 90
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 309
Words per stanza (avg) 88
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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