Analysis of When My Mother Was sick
It was mother's illness that worried me a lot,
I was in my college days,my formative years,
Mother was sick, very weak, and a cardiac patient,
Often got angry with my father for ignoring this fact,
For letting her to continue work in the kitchen non-stop,
Having no resources of my own, I was helpless,
My adolescent emotions manifested in tempers,
Sulks and tempers at every thing came on the way.
I even got annoyed with the birds which squawked,
Mewing of the cats, barking of the dogs and so on,
Irritated me fearing these might deny her any rest,
I even got annoyed at the sun for its dry ferocity,
The wind for its noise and added pollutants,
The calm for denying her a cooling breeze,
In short, all creations seemed a conspiracy,
A silent conspiracy challenging my Mother's existence.
Scheme | ABCDEFBGAHIJKLJM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010110101 11011011001 1011101001010 101101110101011 110010101001011 1011001111110 1010010100010 1010110011101 11010110111 110110101011 10011011010101 1101011011110100 01111010010 01101000101 011010100100 0100100100110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 840 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 626 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on June 18, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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