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.


Scheme XX X AA XX
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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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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