This is an analysis of Sit Smiling by Rabindranath Tagore.

I boasted among men that I had known you.
They see your pictures in all works of mine.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaB XXXXXaB
  • Stanza lengths: 6,7,
  • Metre: 11001111111 1111001101 11111101 1111010011011101 1111110101 111110 11110100101 010101011 11111111110 11110100 11111111 1111010101 111110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

i, they

Anaphora

they, i

Epiphora

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