Analysis of A FIRE BALL
A FIRE-BALL !
K R Balakrishnan
How you wished
Poems to shower on prose fields
While hypocrites started spreading
White cloths of clouds everywhere
And stood giggling.
How you wished
For a pink sun to bid farewell
To taste sweet secrets
Lying inside the tiny heart
Of a shiny lotus !
They showed you golden stars
They lifted you to a sky serene
They promised you sweet dreams
And you got tantalized...
When you came nearer
Your eyes were slammed
With thick smoke inside
A frozen den of delirium.
Then you saw a fire-ball
In the east , coming up
A fire-ball of transformation
A Ray of light summoning you.
As you looked and looked
That ray too died out
Changing into a melted smoke
Filling the nine holes of your body!
| Scheme | a b Cxdxd Cxxxx xbxx xxxx axbx xxxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 111 111 10110111 1101010 111110 01100 111 1011111 11110 10010101 101010 111101 110110101 110111 01110 11110 1101 11101 010110100 1110101 001101 01011010 01111001 11101 11111 10010101 100111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 745 |
| Words | 132 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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