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!
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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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