Analysis of My Dream: Confront with My Death
Pushpa Tuladhar 1948 (Kathmandu)
In the night of sore darkness
In the thunderstorms,
A hungry plant lapping water
Till it’s too stiff to stand.
Striving to nap against my hand
In my own bed
Blinking my memorable eyes
At someone totally engaged in
Carving the night into figurine
That blows out midnight candle.
The wind wearing the curtain
In my room perceive the tree
The soundless howling
Of faceless ghosts
Digging the ground by its toes
Into my back to be in hurry.
When these ghosts came
To drag me out of my bed,
In the other world, my beloved
Beading her hair and
Plucking butterflies from cactus plants.
I shrieked from inside a fountain
A mermaid warned me to be silent.
Alas! I dreamt of me
Walking into the fast moving cars
And waking up with the wrecked arms
Just in the next morning.
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Scheme | XXXA ABXXXX CDEXXD XBXXX CX DXXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011110 0010 01011010 111111 10110111 0111 10110001 11100010 10010101 111110 0110010 0110101 0110 1101 1001111 011111010 1111 1111111 00101101 1010 10101101 11101010 01111110 011111 100101101 01011011 100110 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 787 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 6, 5, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on February 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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