Analysis of Innermost One

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



He it is, the innermost one,
who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches.

He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes
and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart
in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

He it is who weaves the web of this maya
in evanescent hues of gold and silver, blue and green,
and lets peep out through the folds his feet,
at whose touch I forget myself.

Days come and ages pass,
and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name,
in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 10101101111010 1111110100111 01001101111 0101011001 11111011110 0010111010101 011110111 1111011 110101 011101111101001 01001010010110110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 532
Words 109
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 4, 3
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 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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