Analysis of Mother, I May Have Been A Naughty Child
Kazi Nazrul Islam 1899 (Churulia) – 1976 (Dhaka)
Mother, I may have been a naughty child,
But I am your child nevertheless!
You own the world, mother, you are the queen of the world,
And look at me, I go about in the habit of a beggar.
You are bent on neglecting me,
But I love you anyway, it is you, only you that I call upon.
Just as a child runs to his mother even after she has scolded him,
So do I run to you.
How could you push me away from you, mother,
You are my mother, are you not?
Oh, why did you cast me away, mother,
Leave me to play in the dust?
I would have been a better child,
Had only you been a little more kind to me.
I am sad and angry, mother,
I shall go away anywhere my eyes and my feet take me to.
I do not care now whether i live or die now, mother,
I am going away.
Scheme | AXXB CXXD BXBXAC BDBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110101 11111001 1101101101101 0111110100101010 11110101 11111011110111101 110111110101011101 111111 11111011110 11110111 1111110110 1111001 11110101 110110101111 11101010 111011011011111 11111101111110 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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