A Lady with burning urn
(18th Century's cruelty framed in my poem )
A lady with a burning urn
I pestered my tender sole in a hamlet
The marriage summoned wherein I had to be.
Pitch dark was it to cross the field couplet,
The copies lands got over, too hard for me.
A score or two of figures mere in view
Rounded the bride for rituals in her veil.
I peered and peeped, strange, none in a little hue,
But the fire shimmered and flushed the angel.
She stared at me in knot with the old unwise,
However the bond was customarily solemnized,
I loathed my heart and loathed my very eyes.
Coped not, how the god made them diced!
The night passed, the sun journeyed end,
I heard the news of the old brat’s demise of age.
Ran to the cremation-base with my hands to lend,
His pyre shimmered to flush my angel raised my rage.
Written by
Basudev Karmakar
About this poem
A beautiful girl in a village gets married with an old person on custom ...the poet is angry. He dies the next day. The poet gets angrier.
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Written on January 30, 2023
Submitted by karmakar.basudev on January 29, 2023
Modified on May 03, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X XABABCXCXDADXEFEFXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 915 |
Words | 173 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 19 |
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