Analysis of Freedom
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Freedom from fear is the freedom
I claim for you my motherland!
Freedom from the burden of the ages, bending your head,
breaking your back, blinding your eyes to the beckoning
call of the future;
Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
you fasten yourself in night's stillness,
mistrusting the star that speaks of truth's adventurous paths;
freedom from the anarchy of destiny
whole sails are weakly yielded to the blind uncertain winds,
and the helm to a hand ever rigid and cold as death.
Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet's world,
where movements are started through brainless wires,
repeated through mindless habits,
where figures wait with patience and obedience for the
master of show,
to be stirred into a mimicry of life.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJFKLMFNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111010 1111110 10101010101011 1011101110100 11010 1010101101 110010110 01001111101001 10101001100 11110101010101 00110110100111 1010011100011 11011011010 01011010 11011100010010 1011 11101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 608 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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