Analysis of Birthday



Morrow is the day ;
The day of my birth-day,
Every year at the end of May,
I could never celebrate my birthday.

I woke up early,
I felt a little melancholy,
Losing all the strength I had like a withered petal holding on to the flower,
Trying my best to not collapse.

A glimpse of that whited sepulcher;
Whom I killed brutally.
The shade of his appearing on this day,
Making me shiver endlessly.

A glimpse of his ichor dripping,
His expressionless blue face,
Looking at me without a sense of fear,
My trauma brought back to life again.

It just keeps getting worse each year;
Birthdays I could never celebrate.
Still seeing his shade wander,
Waiting for me to surrender.


Scheme AAAA BBCX CBAB XXDX DXCC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (40%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 10101 011111 100110111 11101011 11110 11010100 10101111010101011010 10111101 0111101 111100 0111010111 10110100 0111110 100011 1011010111 110111101 11110111 1111010 1101110 10111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 672
Words 144
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 24

About this poem

I wrote this poem thinking about how one memorable day can change the life of a person. We think about how happy our birthday would be, celebrating it with our family or maybe alone. Birthday is a day which comes only once in an year, how pathetic would the life of a person be if something tragic happens on that day ?

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Written on September 16, 2022

Submitted by Karthikaamirthenathan on September 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Abitha

I am a Sri Lankan, I am a student and writing poems is my hobby. I grew up surrounded by my parents who loved and cared a lot of me and I am still looked after by my parents who still love and care for me. Even though I didn’t realize how much they care for me until a while. I love them with all my heart. I wanted to become a better person, that’s when I started writing poems, and I really hope I become successful one day by becoming a doctor and a poet. I want to help everyone around me… more…

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