This is an analysis of The Gardener Lxxxi: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore.

Why do you whisper so faintly in
my ears, O Death, my Death?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcdcaebfXbgehgbcdXhhfgb
  • Stanza lengths: 26,
  • Metre: 111101100 111111 1010100 101101101 111001011 1111111 101 00111111 10010001010 11101111 010111010 1110 01111001 11011 011010110 011101010 11001111 1111 101111 1100101 11001010 111111 1110001011 10110100100 11111111 101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 26