Analysis of One moment was enough.
Ravi Panamanna 1956 (Ottapalam)
A happily married couple
Young IT professionals
Handsome salaries
Life is an endless tweet.
A beautiful morn’
Breakfast hour
The usual chirps
Soft and casual winds
Something triggered amidst
Gales began to gather
Volcanoes sprang alive
Land-slides took place.
An emotional rupture
A moment of total eclipse
In that complete darkness
She was stabbed, now a garbage!
His hearth was still hot
It burnt his thoughts.
It was a total sweep
It was now a useless weep.
He was left in the lurch
He bid farewell to all springs.
Suicide and no more-
He grabbed a length of rope.
But death spared him for a moment
Broken rope left him tormented.
He was at his wits' end
The claws of death were but firm.
And a jump from the thirteenth floor-
The galore of life came to an end.
That was indeed pageantry
Too short, emotional and self-destructive
One moment was enough-
Life was completely gone.
Beware of the deep lurking snakes,
One bite can vaporize life.
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Scheme | XAXX XBXX XBXX BXXX XXCC XXDX XXEX DEXX XXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001010 110100 10100 111101 01001 1010 01001 101001 101001 101110 010101 1111 1010010 01011001 010110 1111010 11111 1111 110101 1110101 111001 111111 10011 110111 11111010 1011110 111111 0111011 00110111 001111111 1101100 11010001010 110101 110101 01101101 111101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 978 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Outwardly we may appear to be very calm, cool, and collected, but, in a single given moment, the devil in us may play havoc. Read the following based on a report. In the modern world where surging emotions dictate our lives, this poem is very relevant and must be an eye-opener for us all.
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