Analysis of Contemplation

Joy Sengupta 1980 (Maharashtra)



As the end game comes close
I knock, and I scream,
Did I live?
No, I didn’t, it was a happy dream.

I died long back,
The present me, wanted the sky
I couldn’t even reach the stars
On the soil wrapped in mud, I will die.

Life gave me a good chance.
“Be good, live nice once more”
I heard life, and said,
“I would, I would live for sure.”

But the seasons turned, and I grew grey,
I just thought again, I died, And I laid,
Death came to me, when I was alive,
As the bees leave the nest,
When the Queen is eaten, when alive.

Sometimes I feel, I would survive,
What I did, was pure, was good, and would thrive,
Now, after years, when  I recoil,
I see my life all on earth, staked in the soil.


Scheme XABA XCXC XXXX XXBXB BBDD
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 11011 111 111110101 1111 01011001 1110101 101101111 111011 111111 11101 1111111 101010111 1110111011 111111101 101101 101110101 01111101 1111111011 11011101 11111111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 726
Words 167
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 29

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It’s something that I should have done.

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Written on February 18, 2022

Submitted by jsengupta20 on February 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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