Analysis of Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011011001111 11011 1011111010110 1100101 111110111 110010101101010 101111011111 010101011110 101111011 01101001010 01110110110111001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 507
Words 92
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 407
Words per stanza (avg) 90
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 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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