This is an analysis of When Day Is Done by Rabindranath Tagore.

If the day is done,
if birds sing no more,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXX XbabXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 00101 01111 0011110 11010101011 101111010010001 1100101000101011 00100 11001001001010010 110011110 110010 0111100 1010110101001001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

if, of, and

Anaphora

if, whose