Analysis of Night Gazing



NIGHT GAZING
To travel or trudge in darkness
thrills a dull vacuous mind.
Either seated near a bus window
Or in a late night walk to home,
the eyes often glance at empty lanes
and silent disturbing  doors.
The lonely street lamp burns
With limited glow and whelming calmness
 Spreading the vacuum and glancing at the moon shaded trees.
  Noisy insects do buzz with zest
ignorant of its short life.

After a senseless crowded day
Many minds may lay
Under the moaning fans
Entranced in wavy sleep
Or webbed in salty tresses
of spicy woman.
New buds bloom
in such wet semenic nights.
The star born breeze ruffles the dirty blankets
Of roadside dwellers, scattered in sleep
with shapeless battered vessels and mystery bundles.
Tramps and hags dip into dreamless sleep
with rolled up dogs and fugitive rats.
Some roads are wet
with the washed waters of overworked utensils
from hot eateries.
The locked shops smile
Through the grey sleepy wooden shutters
evoking the scenes of the busy day.

What is not there in night?
Why man crawls from darkness
Even a watchman’s whistle has some music in it.
The hooting owls and falling leaves
Speak only to restless minds.
But For a tired traveler
nights bring strange sensations,
a sort of cosmic silence and blank loss
that makes him feel the lonely soul
And empty life


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Poetic Form
Metre 110 11011010 1011001 101010110 10011111 011011101 0100101 010111 110010110 10010010101101 1011111 1001111 10010101 10111 100101 010101 1101010 11010 111 01111 01111001010 11101001 1101010010010 10110111 111101001 1111 10110101010 11100 0111 101101010 0100110101 111101 111110 100110111001 0110101 1101101 11010100 111010 0111010011 11110101 0101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,311
Words 247
Sentences 14
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 12, 19, 10
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 352
Words per stanza (avg) 76

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A poem written with Madurai experience

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Submitted by guhsubram75 on August 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Subramanian.S

A teacher by profession, an amateur poet residing in Erode, India.My roots are in South Tamilnadu and have spent my child hood and youth there.I am a middle aged poet rummaging the past green experiences more…

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