Analysis of Patience
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it.
I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil
and its head bent low with patience.
The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish,
and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.
Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests,
and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.
| Scheme | XXX XX XX |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111111100011 11110110111010 01111110 0101101010110 01111010110101 11111101110011111 01100111010011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 446 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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