Analysis of Leave This
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!
Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground
and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.
He is with them in sun and in shower,
and his garment is covered with dust.
Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Deliverance?
Where is this deliverance to be found?
Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation;
he is bound with us all for ever.
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense!
What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained?
Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.
Scheme | XXX AXBXX XAXB XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111001001011 11110011011010101111 1011011111011 1111010110011 01011101 1111010010 011011011 1111010010111110101 0100 1110100111 101001110010011011010 111111110 11110100101110001 1111111011001 11011101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 791 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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