Analysis of Game of Chess: Part XII



Here, I now stand in front of my sweet Bengal
My tears flow, for it's no longer the real one
We speak the same language and sing the same song
And yet, together no longer a part of Hindusthaan

"Shabash Bangladesh" was it not Shukanto who said
Tagore with all his glamour and 'fusion jazz'
Michael, Manik, Lalon, Hasan Raja and Bankim
Bengal is full of many Rasagullahs

What magic is there in my sweet Bengal
That makes we want to raise the glass furthermore
Is it the virgin beauty or the virgins themselves
Bengal, my love-- again I want to see the sea-shore

Oh Bengal, hear the words of mad Asrar
Who 'alone' wrote for every Hindu and Musalmaan
He was the voice of the unspoken, devoid of any form
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Khoda bless that great man!


Scheme ABXB XCDC AEXE EBDX
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11110111110 11111110011 11011001011 010101100111 110111111 1111100101 1010110101 10111101 1101101110 1111110110 1101010101001 1011011111011 110101111 10111100101 110110010011101 110111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 731
Words 139
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 147
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on November 01, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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