Analysis of Song Unsung
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;
only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.
The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor;
but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.
I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.
Scheme | X X AX X XB XB A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111110101111 111110100011100 01111101111101 10110100110011 010111010011101 11111111110111 1011111011010111 0111101011101 10111110110110111 11001110111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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