Analysis of Lover's Gifts LII: Tired of Waiting

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Tired of waiting, you burst your bonds, impatient flowers, before
the winter had gone. Glimpses of the unseen comer reached your
wayside watch, and you rushed out running and panting, impulsive
jasmines, troops of riotous roses.
    You were the first to march to the breach of death, your
clamour of colour and perfume troubled the air. You laughed and
pressed and pushed each other, bared your breast and dropped in
heaps.
    The Summer will come in its time, sailing in the flood-tide
of the south wind. But you never counted slow moments to be sure
of him. You recklessly spent your all in the road, in the terrible
joy of faith.
    You heard his footsteps from afar, and flung your mantle of
death for him to tread upon. Your bonds break even before the
rescuer is seen, you make him your own ere he can come and claim
you.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 823
Words 151
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 648
Words per stanza (avg) 149
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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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