This is an analysis of Lover's Gifts Lviii: Things Throng And Laugh by Rabindranath Tagore.

Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust dance
and whirl like children. Man's mind is aroused by their shouts; his…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXcdaXccXcdcX
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1111100101111 11110110011110 110001101 111000100111 10101110100011 1110100101 10110001101000 101010111010100 1111010111110 1101010010001001 11111010100101 0101011001001 11001001000111 11111010010100 101110011001011 01
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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