Analysis of Beggarly Heart

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



When the heart is hard and parched up,
come upon me with a shower of mercy.

When grace is lost from life,
come with a burst of song.

When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from
beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.

When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner,
break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king.

When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one,
thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder


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Poetic Form
Metre 10111011 10111010110 111111 110111 11001101111110111 011111111011101 111111110010 11001110110100101 101010110100111101 1111110110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 521
Words 103
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 30, 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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