Analysis of She

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



She who ever had remained in the depth of my being,
in the twilight of gleams and of glimpses;
she who never opened her veils in the morning light,
will be my last gift to thee, my God, folded in my final song.

Words have wooed yet failed to win her;
persuasion has stretched to her its eager arms in vain.

I have roamed from country to country keeping her in the core of my heart,
and around her have risen and fallen the growth and decay of my life.

Over my thoughts and actions, my slumbers and dreams,
she reigned yet dwelled alone and apart.

Many a man knocked at my door and asked for her
and turned away in despair.

There was none in the world who ever saw her face to face,
and she remained in her loneliness waiting for thy recognition.


Scheme XXXX AX BX XB AX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 11101010011110 001110110 1110100100101 1111111111001101 11111110 0101110110101 111110110100001111 001011001001001111 10110101101 111101001 100111110110 0101001 11100111010111 0101001001011010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 754
Words 147
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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