Analysis of A Jigsaw Puzzle
Ravi Panamanna 1956 (Ottapalam)
With a couple of utensils,
A bundle of things, a sack,
A rusty box, a broken cradle,
And in sunken dreams,
With a couple of kids
In rugged clothes,
In cadaver conditions,
I saw a family at the station.
Where were they going?
Where was their final post?
What was behind their sighs?
What told their vacant looks?
I enquired - there was information
His mother was breathing her last.
There was urgency
To reach home at the earliest
It was a couple of days’ travel,
They were crossing hills and dales.
Further the plains, beyond the ravines
They were challenging real distances.
A casual laborer, a contract,
A trench worker, rootless life
Sunny ways, toiling days,
Gypsy life and endless strife
But, from the deep skies
It was the call of the womb.
Winding up the contract
Now, it was farewell to these winds….
At last, the train arrived
And they were on their wheels.
With a couple of lingering eyes
They forever left from my shores.
Alone on the platform,
I was in deep distress.
Will he see his mother alive?
Or ashes are awaiting him?
Man hath certain inevitable inns,
Man hath certain promises to keep.
He is facing many deadlines,
Life is forever a jigsaw puzzle.
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Scheme | AXBX XXXC XXDX CXXX BXXX EFXF DXEX XXDX XXXX XXXBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 0101101 010101010 00101 101011 0101 0010010 1101001010 10110 111101 110111 111101 1111010 11011001 11100 11110100 110101110 1010101 100101001 101001100 010010001 0110101 101101 1010101 11011 1101101 10101 1111111 110101 010111 101011001 10101111 01101 110101 11111001 11010101 1110010001 111010011 1110101 110100110 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,212 |
Words | 250 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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