Analysis of The Mango Tree
Subhodeep Chakraborty 2000 (Kolkata)
When I was a kid,
There was a mango tree.
Not a big and shining one,
Not a small one either.
It was just a tree
Sick and weak fainted and pale
It was tired, just like me.
I used to go to the roof and stare at it.
It smiled at me.
We talked about many things for hours,
It completed me.
I wondered why it's in a prison
Kept between big other trees,
There were many other trees.
Trees of flowers and fruits
To me, they were killing the mango tree,
I felt it, just like how I felt in my school
Imprisoned between beauty and worthy.
Maybe, the mango tree wasn't worth enough to live.
Maybe some things are meant to die in pain.
I felt the loneliness of it, every day, every night.
But when I asked my mother,
About the tree.
She replied, " it used to give the most delicious mangoes I've ever tasted.
Soft like clouds, filled with flavours, sweet that'll give you a heavenly feeling."
One day,
One cold winter day.
When I woke up from the sleep,
When I woke up from a beautiful dream.
I looked outside in the garden.
The Mango tree was gone.
Died in a cold winter night,
All alone.
Sometimes I wonder why?
Why all the good things die?
Scheme | XABCAX AXAXA BDDXAXA XXE CAXX FFXXBXEX GG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101 110101 1010101 101110 11101 1011001 1110111 11111010111 1111 1101101110 10101 110110010 1011101 1010101 111001 1110100101 11111111011 0100110010 1001011010111 1011111101 1101001110011001 1111110 0101 1011111010101011010 11111111011010010 11 11101 1111101 1111101001 11110010 010111 1001101 101 011101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,132 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 7, 3, 4, 8, 2 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on January 27, 2021
Modified on March 14, 2023
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