I Sigh for You



I sigh for you, Lorena, day and night-
as a blind man sighs every day for light,
as a mother sighs for lost son-daughter
and falling on soil a fish for water.

I sigh in waking and in sleep I sigh;
I die and get alive, again I die.
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Submitted on June 01, 2015

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB CC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 225
Words 49
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 2

Sayeed Abubakar

b. 21 September 1972 in Bangladesh more…

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  • Kamrul Islam
    Kamrul Islam
    Nice
    LikeReply 28 years ago
  • Kamrul Islam
    Kamrul Islam
    Awesome.
    LikeReply 28 years ago
    • Aviv Ben Efraim
      Aviv Ben Efraim
      :)
      LikeReply7 years ago
  • Drew Nickerson
    Drew Nickerson
    very aspireing
    LikeReply 28 years ago

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