Analysis of Untimely Leave

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



No more noisy, loud words from me---such is my master's will.
Henceforth I deal in whispers.
The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

Men hasten to the King's market. All the buyers and sellers are there.
But I have my untimely leave in the middle of the day, in the thick of work.

Let then the flowers come out in my garden, though it is not their time;
and let the midday bees strike up their lazy hum.

Full many an hour have I spent in the strife of the good and the evil,
but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him;
and I know not why is this sudden call to what useless inconsequence!


Scheme XAX XX XX XXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111111101 1111010 011111110101101 11010110101001011 11110101001010100111 11010110110111111 01011111101 1101101110011010010 1111010111101011111111 011111110111101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 668
Words 136
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 51
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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