Analysis of A girl child
I am a girl child, in my mother's womb,
There are people out there, determined to make it my tomb.
To my mother's pleas, they turn a deaf ear,
Instilling in her a crippling fear.
They think that I will be a waste of space,
To rip me from my protective cocoon, they race.
These people want to commit an inhuman act,
'A girl is useless', for them it's a fact.
I don't want to be a burden on anyone,
I just want a chance to watch the tall waves, the setting sun.
I might not be a boy,
That doesn't mean that they will treat me like a toy.
My mother comforts me even when she is in tears,
Those people out there deserve to be impaled by spears.
No one has given them the right to tear a mother's heart,
A doe is gifted with beauty if strength is given to the hart.
I am in my mother's womb, but I know right and wrong,
Is there no place in the world where I belong?
Why does everyone treasure a son and not a daughter,
Why is a boy considered wine and a girl polluted water?
People forget that they can't live without water,
All these tortures on a girl, will only make their lives shorter.
What crime have i committed, which calls for such a unfair punishment?,
Why torture my sweet mother, with your harsh judgment?
A woman maintains the balance of life,
She is a loving mother, a devoted wife.
There is a fact, which these violent people shun,
If they kill the girls, who will bear them a son?
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Metre | 1101101101 11101101011111 1110111011 0100001001 1111110111 111110100111 110110110101 0111011101 11111010110 11101110110101 111101 110111111101 1101011011101 1101101110111 11110101110101 0111011011110101 1101101111101 11110011101 1110100101010 1101010100101010 100111110110 111010111011110 11110101111001100 110111011110 0100101011 110101000101 110111100101 11101111101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,459 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
Isn't it ironic that in the country in which goddesses are worshiped, female foeticide is extremely rampant?
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Written on October 05, 2021
Submitted by Coco1808! on October 05, 2021
Modified on March 14, 2023
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