This is an analysis of Silent Steps by Rabindranath Tagore.
Have you not heard his silent steps?
He comes, comes, ever comes.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xa Xa bbX aa aa XX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,2,2,2,
- Metre: 11110101 111101 1001011001 100111001111101 10011110100101 111111101 1111010 00101010101010111 1101 0010100111010010001 111101 01010100001110111 1000101001111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
comes, every
Anaphora
every
Epiphora
comes
Anadiplosis
comes