Analysis of CRY FOR ALTERNATIVE
There is a whole lot of crowded life under the long fly-over
--from fish market to plastic tents and car parking to excretion—
poor pedestrians can’t cross the road either side
they fear auto rickshaws, bikes, food stalls, pushes and pickpockets
on the footpath extended shops short-circuit every movement
opposite Paras Cancer Centre in Raja Bazar
it’s a sight of sepsis with multiple dysfunction
--a consilience of rural ambition with urban abundance—
they cry for alternative diagnosis but lack doctor and ventilator
--R K Singh
| Scheme | ABX XXX BXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111011001110 1110110101101010 101001101101 1110111110010 101010111010010 100110100101 1011101100010 01110010110010 111010001011100100 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 547 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on September 21, 2021
Submitted by profrksingh on January 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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