Analysis of Face To Face
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)
Day after day, O lord of my life,
shall I stand before thee face to face.
With folded hands, O lord of all worlds,
shall I stand before thee face to face.
Under thy great sky in solitude and silence,
with humble heart shall I stand before thee face to face.
In this laborious world of thine, tumultuous with toil
and with struggle, among hurrying crowds
shall I stand before thee face to face.
And when my work shall be done in this world,
O King of kings, alone and speechless
shall I stand before thee face to face.
| Scheme | xAxA xa xxA xxA |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111111 111011111 110111111 111011111 10111010010 1101111011111 01010011110011 0110011001 111011111 0111111011 111101010 111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 526 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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