This is an analysis of Lover's Gifts Iv: She Is Near To My Heart by Rabindranath Tagore.

She is near to my heart as the meadow-flower to the earth; she is
sweet to me as sleep is to tired limbs. My love for her is my life…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 10101110111000110 10111001011110011 10001010100101100 01010011110111010 001110101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

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