Analysis of Day laborer



Spade, basket in hand
They sit on the sidewalk.
Work if someone calls
Then there will be cooking at home that day.

Helper, Earth cutter, Stone crusher, Mason
There is no descent work.

The work that gets in hand, performs all day long
Throughout the morning till evening.

In this way, year after year, their family goes on
Working by their hands, talking about life.

They come from from far away villages
Hoping for a little work in town-
Maybe there was a piece of land
But there is none, due to the flood.

In statistics, they are floating crowds
No one takes any account on them
Does anyone know, what they are talking about?

(Day laborers come from the village to town with
great expectation to lead a better, however, there lives
do not improve much!)


Scheme AXXX XX XX XX XXAX XXX XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11001 11101 1111 1111101111 1011011010 111011 01110101111 01010110 0111101110011 1011110011 1111101100 101010101 10110111 11111101 001011101 111100111 11011111001 110011010111 1010110101011 11011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 760
Words 151
Sentences 9
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by hakikur on November 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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