Analysis of Masks



Thousand of people
standing in long queue,
wearing mask,
eagerly till dusk.

Some of them are old folk,
disabled, even may be infected.
Few are unable to stand,
Few are standing like wand

Their masks hiding their
worried faces.
They are gasping,
but standing in long queue, sweating.

But I want to open
the real faces behind masks
Lo! These are not the faces of commons
but vested serpent demons.


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXAA XXBB
Poetic Form
Metre 10110 10011 101 10011 111111 0101011010 1101011 111011 11101 1010 1110 11001110 111110 0110011 1111010110 1101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 380
Words 70
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by swarup on July 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Swarup Bhattacharya

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