Analysis of Distant Time
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I know not from what distant time
thou art ever coming nearer to meet me.
Thy sun and stars can never keep thee hidden from me for aye.
In many a morning and eve thy footsteps have been heard
and thy messenger has come within my heart and called me in secret.
I know not only why today my life is all astir,
and a feeling of tremulous joy is passing through my heart.
It is as if the time were come to wind up my work,
and I feel in the air a faint smell of thy sweet presence.
| Scheme | XXX XX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 11101010111 110111011101111 0100100111111 01100110111011010 1111010111111 001011001110111 1111010111111 01100101111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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