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?
                                            


Scheme AAXX BBCC DDEE XXFF GGHH HHII JJDD
Poetic Form
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

1:24 min read
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