Analysis of A stranger is no stranger
A stranger is no stranger
Met Roja, petite, brown, awkward girl, in a semi-rural town,
watched her clean vessels, wash clothes, before the Sun shone.
Watering the shrubs, wild, pink flowers around the house,
cut vegetables for aunt, brought newspaper for uncle to browse,
slung some clothes, collected her books, food she would gobble,
bowed to the Goddess, hurried to suburban college, at a double.
Roja grew fond of my little boys; evenings, a peekaboo time.
At seven, she ran, before her aunt could scream, pick up lime
fallen from their tree, slept at ten, when she heard the clock chyme.
Roja came away from her own, her father called her mother a whore.
loathed watering his chrysanthemum beds; disgust, at her heart’s core.
Every day she saw her father play with his new wife’s babe
often, he shouted, told her, your mother has herself to blame.
What is true love aunty? At eighteen, her fears gave full vent
how could I tell her that even I, an answer was to get?
Who will marry me? bruised voice cracked, am nobody’s pet.
Soon mingled I in the urban, two kids, a job, and wedded strife
Roja passed away; heard from neighbors, had ended her life!
downed pesticide, her last moments, uncle heard her frail cry
‘Save me somehow, Please, want to liveeee’, acids burnt her inside
The chrysanthemums beds wept. Death became her avenger,
As of now, to Roja I could explain ….a stranger is no stranger.
Scheme | A XXXXBB CCC DDXX XEE FFXXAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 110111010010101 101101101011 1000111100101 11001111011011 1110100111110 11010101010101010 1111110110011 11011010111111 10111111111011 1101101010101001 1100101001011011 100111010111111 101101011010111 1111110101111 111101101110111 11101111111 1101001011010101 1101111011001 1100110101011 1111111101001 00100111010010 1111111010101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,423 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 3, 4, 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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A true incident of a girl who ended her life
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