Analysis of NOBODY ASKS ME
From lattice window
I watch the doomed and dying each day:
read the tattooed name
of her first love on the right arm
waking up the drunk
with tenderness of youthful mom
bitchy fight at night
for booze or sex in candle light
smoking dreams of years
with dirt or grease between fingers
his somniloquy
drugged-out face, doomed grin, boys’ dustup
now the Covid smells
they shift lamp to live with shadow
lockdown images
burning, buried, floating bodies
I nearly die
nobody asks me my last wish
--R K Singh
| Scheme | AX XX BX CC XX BX XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 110101011 10011 10111011 10101 11001101 10111 11110101 10111 11110110 11 1111111 1011 1111111 1100 10101010 1101 111111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 486 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
During the current Covid-19 related lockdown, people experienced a variety of critical situation within the four walls of their residence. The poem offers a peep into such a scene 'from a window'.
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Written on June 02, 2021
Submitted by profrksingh on August 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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