Analysis of Vocation
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our
lane.
Every day I meet the hawker crying, "Bangles, crystal
bangles!"
There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must
take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying,
"Bangles, crystal bangles!"
When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school,
I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging
the ground.
He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes
with dust, nobody takes him to task if he gets baked in the sun or
gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with
nobody to stop me from digging.
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to
bed,
I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and
down.
The lane is dark and lonely, and the street-lamp stands like
a giant with one red eye in its head.
The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at
his side, and never once goes to bed in his life.
I wish I were a watchman walking the streets all night,
chasing the shadows with my lantern.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111001001111110 1 100111010101010 10 111011011111111 11111111111111 1110010101100110 101010 1110001111101 111101111010010 01 111111111111 111111111110011 11 11100100100110101 1111110 1111100100110111 1 1111110100101010 1 0111010001111 0101111011 0101110011111 110101111011 1110010100111 10011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,174 |
Words | 233 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 882 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 229 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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