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Dead but alive

Moin Nagavadria 2001 (Mumbai)

Dead but alive,
His eyes were dead,
But mind was alive,
Struggling with his life,
Just to make it alive

He gambled his life,
Yet he survived,
Perhaps God wanted his eyes to be dead,
And his mind alive...
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Submitted by moinnagavadria on June 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACA CXBA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 204
Words 47
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 4
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