Analysis of A Moments Indulgence

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works
that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,
and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.

Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and
the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.

Now it is time to sit quite, face to face with thee, and to sing
dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.


Scheme XX XX XX XX
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1110100101111101 111011110100 0110111111111110 011011101001111 010101111101110100 0111011101101001 111111111111011 010110110010010
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 516
Words 102
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 50
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 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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