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SOMEBODY by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SOMEBODY BEING A NOBODY
Last Line: WOULD YOU HAVE CALLED ME A NOBODY?
Subject(s): FAME; REPUTATION;
Somebody being a nobody,
Thinking to look like a somebody,
Said he thought me a nobody:
Good little somebody-nobody,
Had you not known me a somebody,
Would you have called me a nobody?




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