Analysis of Clearing my dead daughter’s room



Clearing my dead daughter ‘s room.

How many of us will ever have to do this ?
I mean going through your dead daughter’s  things.
She passed away and that too by choice.
This was a year ago and I had no voice.

And me , her father still breathing and old,
still living but very cold.
cold and dead in the soul,
no escape there and numb all alone,
deep in grief and forlorn.
She passed away and that too by choice,
This was a year ago and I had no voice.

Sifting through her plentiful school works
and even much of her college years
seeing afresh what I knew were there
a handwritten note here,
and typed manuscript of her from nowhere
suddenly on my radar.

It’s totally heart breaking
it’s searingly gut wrenching
O ‘ Lord, is that how you punish the  bereft who are grieving?
She passed away , that too by choice.
This was a year ago and I had no voice.


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Poetic Form
Metre 10111011 110111101111 1110111101 110101111 11010101111 0101011001 1101101 101001 101101101 101001 110101111 11010101111 101010011 010110101 100111101 01011 01101011 100111 1100110 11110 111111100011110 11011111 11010101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 846
Words 164
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 7, 6, 5
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 34

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My daughter died exactly a year ago from suicide…,

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Submitted by badal.pal on July 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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