Analysis of ONE DAY
Khyati Chauhan 2001 (Delhi)
All this time, all this time,
The little princess was feeding on a lie,
They said, wait up here, up in the castle's paradise,
Your prince will come one day, you'll shine.
Spring came, the princess couldn't control her fain,
Waiting for the prince, dreaming of her reign.
Summer came, the princess kept waiting in her cave,
Knowing the sun will shine in her life once her prince arrives.
Autumn came, there was a wavering in her faith,
Will the prince really come as they saith?
Winter came, cold creeping in her vein,
And then she was done waiting in the den.
It was then the princess realized,
That all this was just a lie.
It was her who she had to tame,
It was her who would bring the change.
She fought with the dragon of her psych,
She brought the change in her life.
When she was in that state of mind,
That is when her prince also arrived.
Scheme | XAXX BBXX CCBX XAXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111111 01010110101 111111001010 11111111 11010100101 1010110101 101010110001 10011100110101 101110100001 101101111 101110001 0111110001 11101010 1111101 11011111 11011101 111010101 1101001 11101111 111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
The poem talks about the tendencies of people to live in their comfort zone and encourages them to leave it and is all shown through the analogy of a princess.
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Written on January 16, 2022
Submitted by nautiyal1117 on February 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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