Analysis of Dream

Ram Krishna Singh 1950 (Varanasi)



I watch the past crushed
and fake saints rising to reign

exalt cunningness
envision deceit to prosper

a ram rigs the folk
with iron teeth and speaking horns

from the Ganga's bank
immigrant hope and waiting

pushes west-, north-, east-
and southward for net-breaking

new resurrection
beyond the brimming nowhere

I hear the dead dying
angels groaning in the trees

my unscarred body
feels the hand that's blade and guard

ends me like full-stop.
New waves of terror rise high.

the book is opened
but where is the seeing eye?


Scheme XX AX XA XB XB XX BA XX XC XC
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11011 0111011 011 01001110 01101 11010101 1011 1001010 10111 0101110 1010 010101 110110 1010001 1110 1011101 11111 1111011 01110 1110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 502
Words 90
Sentences 3
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted on December 08, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ram Krishna Singh

Ram Krishna Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi (U.P., India), has been writing poetry in English for about four decades. He has published over 160 academic articles, 175 book reviews, and 20 collections of poems, including the latest I Am No Jesus And Other Selected Poems, Tanka And Haiku (English/Crimean Tatar, 2014), You Can’t Scent Me and Other Poems (2016), God Too Awaits Light (2017), Growing Within/Desăvârşire lăuntrică (English/Romanian, 2017), There's No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019), Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, Traductor Joseph Berolo Ramos, 2019), Silencio: Blanca Desconfianza: Silence: White Distrust (Spanish Edition, Spanish/English, Kindle, 2021), A Lone Sparrow:Haiku Poems (English/Arabic, Tr. Boubaker Rouagha, ed. Mahmoud Al-Rajabi, 2021), Against The Waves: Selected Poems (2021), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza/ Silence: White distrust (Spanish/English, Tr. Joseph Berolo, Kindle, 2021), Changing Seasons: Selected Tanka and Haiku (English/Arabic, ed. Mahmoud Al-Rajabi, calameo.com , 2021), 白濁 : SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, Tr. Rika Inami, Kindle Edition/Paperback, 2022), and Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, Tr. Taner Murat, 2021). Appreciated for his tanka and haiku, Dr. Singh's poems have been anthologized in over a hundred books. His poems have been translated into Japanese, Greek, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Hungarian, Albanian, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian, Slovene, Irish, Croatian, Farsi, Arabic, Serbian, Bosnian, Esperanto, Dzonkha, Hindi, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Bangla. A member of several literary bodies and editorial boards, nominated for Pushcart Prize 2013 and 2014, and winner of Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999, Certificate of Honour and Nyuusen Prize in Kumamoto International Kusamamoto Haiku Competition, Japan, 2000 and 2008, Nazar Look Prize for Poetry, Romania, 2013, Prize of Corea Literature, Seoul, 2013, and Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize, Lebanon, 2015, Dr. Singh recently retired as Professor (HAG) at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad 826004 (India). His email: profrksingh@gmail.com More at: rksinghpoet.blogspot.com https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh more…

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