This is an analysis of I Cast My Net Into The Sea by Rabindranath Tagore.

In the morning I cast my net into the sea.
I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty -- some shone like a smile, some glistened like tears, and some were flushed like the cheeks of a bride.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X X X a X X a X
  • Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Metre: 001011110001 1110010110111111011101110111101101001 1001101111111000101010010010 1101010101111011111111110 11101111111111011110 111101111111111011000101111111 101111101110001 001010011101110000110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

i, and, like, some, of, them, not, in, they

Epiphora

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