Analysis of Who Is This
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
I came out alone on my way to my tryst.
But who is this that follows me in the silent dark?
I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not.
He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger;
he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter.
He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame;
but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111111 1111110100101 1101101110110111 110111011110 11111110011110 1111101111111 111011111101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 371 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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