Analysis of Dream



The sun blazed above the grass thatched huts,
Trees failed to produce, only succulents survived,
The stream had stopped singing, chaos everywhere.
Jackals moved around rabbit burrows, none came out.
The fields were dry, rabbits deserted their abode.
The leopard ran after its prey,failed to catch
For it had been starving,couldn't run fast enough.
The hungry old man dozed beneath the banyan tree
There came a rain and villagers dug many ponds
To  collect the rain ,wasted not a single drop.
Dormant seeds germinated to flowering plants
A monkey threw a fruit to the sleeping old man,
Woke up to see only the barren land and  mirages ahead.
Oh!Was it a reverie ? He moaned.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMN
Poetic Form
Metre 011010111 111011010001 0111101010 11011010111 010110010101 0101101111 111111101 010111010101 110101001101 101011010101 10110011001 010101101011 1111100101001001 11010011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 662
Words 117
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 537
Words per stanza (avg) 117

About this poem

There is no rain in this place as the forests were destroyed by us, the human beings, resulted in scarcity of water .The living things suffer a lot, starvation everywhere.an old man saw a dream of harvesting rain.May be it was a message from the Almighty.

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Submitted by prayag76 on July 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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