Analysis of Fairyland

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



If people came to know where my king's palace is, it would vanish
into the air.
    The walls are of white silver and the roof of shining gold.
    The queen lives in a palace with seven courtyards, and she
wears a jewel that cost all the wealth of seven kingdoms.
    But let me tell you, mother, in a whisper, where my king's
palace is.
    It is at the corner of our terrace where the pot of the tulsi
plant stands.
    The princess lies sleeping on the far-away shore of the seven
impassable seas.
    There is none in the world who can find her but myself.
    She has bracelets on her arms and pearl drops in her ears; her
hair sweeps down upon the floor.
    She will wake when I touch her with my magic wand and jewels
will fall from her lips when she smiles.
    But let me whisper in your ear, mother; she is there in the
corner of our terrace where the pot of the tulsi plant stands.
    When it is time for you to go to the river for your bath, step
up to that terrace on the roof.
    I sit in the corner where the shadow of the walls meet
together.
    Only puss is allowed to come with me, for she know where the
barber in the story lives.
    But let me whisper, mother, in your ear where the barber in
the story lives.
    It is at the corner of the terrace where the pot of the tulsi
plant stands.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101111111011110 0101 01111100011101 0110010110101 10101110111010 11111100010111 101 11101011010101101 11 0101101010111010 01001 111001111011 11101010110010 1110101 111111011101010 11101111 111100111011100 101101010110111 1111111110101111 11110101 1100101011011 010 101101111111110 1000101 111101001110100 0101 1110101010101101 11
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,297
Words 256
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 976
Words per stanza (avg) 254
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 19, 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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