This is an analysis of Lover's Gifts Xlviii: I Travelled The Old Road by Rabindranath Tagore.

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…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXXaXXbbab
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 110011100111110010 11000111101101011 10101101 1101101100110100 01010100100101 100101001 1001101000110110 11111011101101010 1 1010100111011000 1110101011011010 1110101 110110101110100101 0101011011111111 1011101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

my, i, to, of