Analysis of Desperate Moments

Quaid-Uz-Zaman 1954 (Jamalpur)



Each house is a volcano
live or dead,
gushing out lava red,
panic is the name for white blood cells;

Witches telling tales to their's progeny,
owls knitting silence in vain, sorry, I can't  tell  tomorrow's fate,
even after a second, my breath is a mystery, bending  always towards the western sky.

Still under the rubble beneath the ashes,  I will  keep on searching ...
I want my magic lantern back.

Shadows wandering,
black deaths hovering
over the long stretched Milky Way,
I hear the soft sounds descending,
I turn to the soul,
Oh! Welcome,  my native language.

(Station Road, Jamalpur)
07.09.2021)


Scheme XAAX XXX BX BBXBXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110010 111 101101 101011111 1010111100 110100110111011 10100101110100101010101 11001001010111110 11110101 1100 11100 10011101 11011010 11101 11011010 1011 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 587
Words 103
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 6, 2
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by Quaid-Uz-Zaman on September 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quaid-Uz-Zaman

Retired college teacher.Has published two books of poetry. Also has poems published online. more…

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