Analysis of A Mother's Abyss
An ode is,
What she is.
Whose belly bears a bliss.
She who cares like a flowerbed,
Breathes life with a kiss.
Smiles there, the Mother lost in the abyss.
An ode is,
What she is.
Whose smile, in a box, she keeps.
Buttons Bangles and candies tossed.
Amidst the night's multitude, she secretly peeps,
Weeps there, the Mother lost in the abyss.
An ode is,
What she is.
Whose tails we have charred.
Skins bruised. Eyes boiled. Livers cooked.
Wagged like a Victorian Flag, now marred.
Rages there, the Mother lost in the abyss.
An ode is,
What she is.
She who bears a fruit. Lends water.
On the breasts of whose, we rob and cheat.
She then wrecks, wraths, and shrieks slaughter.
Smiles again, the Mother lost in the abyss.
Scheme | AAbcbb AAdcdb AAcccb AAeceb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 111 110101 111101 11101 1101010001 111 111 1100111 10100101 01011011001 1101010001 111 111 11111 1111101 1100100111 10101010001 111 111 11101110 101111101 11110110 10101010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
It revolves around the quintessential love that motherhood begets and the various phases of a mother's life in general, right from caressing us like a flower to being a lioness of our hearts who is not at all feeble, as the society portrays women nowadays.
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Written on August 01, 2021
Submitted by anilk09661 on August 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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