The speaker exclaims that she is “nobody,” and asks, “who are you? / are you— nobody—too? ” if so, she says, then they are a pair of nobodies, and she admonishes her addressee not to tell, for “they’d banish us—you know! ” she says that it would be “dreary” to be “somebody”—it would be “public” and require that, “like a frog,” one tell one’s name “the livelong june— / to an admiring bog read more on -

The quote in the question above is the BASIC PLOT of "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", a short lyric poem by Emily Dickinson.

Further analyzing the poem, we can observe that the narrator's POV is first person, and the message that the poem passes across is that being a nobody isn't as bad as people think it is. Also, the poem seeks to establish that public people lose privacy so being public may not be as great as people think it is. Overall, the style used is iambic tetrameter and trimeter.