Analysis of Flower

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.

I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am
aware, and the time of offering go by.

Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time.


Scheme XX XXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100110111111 1010101 11110101101111011 11110111110110111 01001110011 111111011111110 01100111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 398
Words 85
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 2
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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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