Unyielding by Rabindranath Tagore: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Unyielding that begins with:

When I called you in your garden
Mango blooms were rich in fragrance -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcddX XedXb efXeb XdacX XaegXXebfgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110 10101010 10101110 11111010 10101110 101011011 1110100 00111010 101011100 1111001100 11101001 1111100 10011110 11111110 101110110 11111010 1110100 11100100 10101010 10111110 10111110 10101000 11101010 11001010 11111010 11100111 11101000 11101010 100011010 11110110 11001101 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.

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  • summary of Unyielding;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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