Analysis of Futility of This Poem



I gather the panoply
Of my orphic thoughts,
Sew them with thread of tears
Into garland of expressions.
Display them in retail.
Customers smell them.
Repelled by the dull flowers,
Like bees in search of nectar
They fly away to finer prospects.
I sit alone in cold silence.
The narcissist in me
Admires the flowers,
Until the petals wane and fall
As the thread melts away.
The narcissist beholds the garland
And witness it wither with time.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1100100 11101 111111 01101010 01101 10011 0110110 1101110 110111010 11010110 010001 01010 01010101 101101 01001010 01011011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 423
Words 77
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 352
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Submitted by abhijit_c on April 25, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Abhijit Chatterjee

Born in Burdwan, a suburb of Kolkata, he completed his Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. more…

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