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.


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Poetic Form
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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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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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