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 |
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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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