Analysis of Lover's Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I travelled the old road every day, I took my fruits to the market,
my cattle to the meadows, I ferried my boat across the stream and
all the ways were well known to me.
One morning my basket was heavy with wares. Men were busy in
the fields, the pastures crowded with cattle; the breast of earth
heaved with the mirth of ripening rice.
Suddenly there was a tremor in the air, and the sky seemed to
kiss me on my forehead. My mind started up like the morning out of
mist.
I forgot to follow the track. I stepped a few paces from the
path, and my familiar world appeared strange to me, like a flower
I had only known in bud.
My everyday wisdom was ashamed. I went astray in the fairyland
of things. It was the best luck of my life that I lost my path that
morning, and found my eternal childhood.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110011100111111010 1101011101101010 10101111 1101101101110100 01010101100111 110111001 1001101000100111 11111011101101011 1 1011100111011010 1010101011111010 1110101 11011010111010010 1111011111111111 100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 620 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 157 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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