Analysis of A Place in the World
Khushbu Rathi 2002 (Mumbai)
Running from pole to pillar,
From one goal to another
watching things at 2x speed,
fearing from slowing down as it's hard to see,
the dark loneliness that's alone waiting,
soon rises the chaos within me,
The silence screams in the wilderness of night.
I lay down on my pillow, it knows all
Tossing, turning and struggle through the night
To slowly drift away in my mind
Doubts and fear visit me
As the rumors come whispering to me like screams
Moonlight shines off the tears
I shut my ears, my scars salt
As I bleed out my fears
Am I not enough
Or is it just that people which are obsessed by something that blots out,
the world where I am me
I saw things not as they were
But as I was, deeply looking for what I wished to find.
Forcing laughter, faking smile are all long gone.
I feel missed, as my tears ricochet,
missed by the right ones, tripped by the wrong
I'm not the only one who feels so,
but I'm alone, on my own
I'll be strong, I'll be wrong
But life goes on
I'm just a girl,
trying to find place in this world,
Trying to find a place in this world.
Scheme | AABCDCEFEGCHIJKLMCAGNOPQRPSTUU |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1011110 1111010 101111 10110111111 0110010110 110010011 01010010011 1111110111 1010010101 110101011 101101 101011001111 11101 1111111 111111 11101 11111101101110111 011111 1111110 11111010111111 10101011111 11111110 110111101 110101111 1101111 111111 1111 1101 10111011 101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 822 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 209 |
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Written on February 10, 2022
Submitted by khushbu_r on February 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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