Analysis of At First Sight



It was the freshers day at the university,
I saw her in a dark blue saree,
With a blissful smile on her enchanting face,
Our eyes met,                                                                                     I felt a sudden feeling in my heart,
I was simply driven,                                                                      With  an enchanting feeling,
 We exchanged glances,                                                    
 I  dared not to speak to her,                                                                    And she too  was feeling shy,            
They call-'love at first sight',
It was only a feeling, a passing fancy,
Alas!, it left an enduring pain in my mind,
Of absolute rejection and deprivation.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11011100100 11000111 10101100101 10111101010011 1110101101010 10110 11111100111101 111111 111001001010 011110101011 1100100010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 735
Words 86
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 28
Letters per stanza (avg) 351
Words per stanza (avg) 309

About this poem

It's about the feelings of a young man-imagining that he had fallen in love.

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Written on October 20, 2005

Submitted by atputham7 on July 19, 2021

Modified by atputham7 on July 20, 2021

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Jesudason Atputharajah

Jesudason is a Srilankan teacher who has written a number of poems and articles of general interest. He is a contributing editor of Monsoon Journal-writing articles of general interest. He was awarded the Montage Award for exemplary writing in 2018. more…

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