Analysis of Someone Else’s Song
Kamala Das 1934 (Kamala Punnayurkulam, Madras Presidency) – 2009 (Pune, Maharashtra)
I am a million, million people
Talking all at once, with voices
Raised in clamour, like maids
At village-wells.
I am a million, million deaths
Pox-clustered, each a drying seed
Someday to be shed, to grow for
Someone else, a memory.
I am a million, million births
Flushed with triumphant blood, each a growing
Thing that thrusts its long-nailed hands
To scar the hollow air.
I am a million, million silences
Strung like crystal beads
Onto someone else’s
Song.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX AXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101010 10111110 10111 1101 11010101 11010101 1111111 110100 11010101 1101011010 1111111 110101 1101010100 11101 10110 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 446 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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