Analysis of I don'T know...
Ram Krishna Singh 1950 (Varanasi)
I don’t know how to negotiate the long steep trail
with hidden scorpions under loose rocks
at home with human muck in a valley existence
strolling upward through a thicket of TV images
politics of glory, garbage and god
the odd arts of money, hierarchy and control
nobody knows who unmakes whom
I don’t know how to follow the ridges
back to the trail and the dead river
but stand for a moment to rub the sand from my feet
before worrying about the lost vitality and fear
of the approaching night and rising smoke
dissolving in the sky or conspiring with elements
hardly in balance but contorting the psyche
I don’t know what is there for me to hope
when the rains rejuvenate and flood both
the repulsive stench and the loss of pathways
linger longer than the flavor of the first drops
under the tree the puddle feeds no sparrows
but algae that couldn’t dry now trap tiny souls
that fail to swell with heaven’s breath
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Metre | 111110100111 1101001011 1111010010010 10101010111100 101101001 011110100001 11111 1111110010 110100110 1110101101111 011000101010001 1001010101 01000110101100 1001011010 1111111111 101010011 0010100111 101010101011 10010101110 11011111101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 906 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on December 08, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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