The Wicked Postman by Rabindranath Tagore: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Wicked Postman that begins with:

Why do you sit there on the floor so quiet and silent, tell me,
mother dear?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXcXadeXebfgfXacgghXhaXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110111011011 101 0101001010101011 111110 111011010011110 01101 11100111111 101101001001 110101010001111 1010001 1010101101011110 1000101 110010011101 0110101001101111 0111110 11101110101011 01001 111001101 1101111 110111111101101 1111110100111010 1001 1110110111110110 11011000010101 1110011101101101 101101110 110101110110101 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 239
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.

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