Analysis of A reporter's sorrow
Rajendra Bhandari 2022 (Kalimpong)
A reporter' sorrow
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The one fasting unto death has already broken his fast
by drinking Maushami squash.
Today
no news of heart stroke of any Prime Minister, Minister
or Ward Commissioner.
No scam.
No rape.
The sun dozed dispersing cold rays.
Today
my camera slept starved.
Nothing fruited on the tree of news.
The official smile of the Chief Minister
and
the advertisement of Life Insurance Company is
as it is on the public toilet wall.
Today, slower is the blood circulation.
Nobody kidnapped any one for ransom.
Communal riot,
molestation of house-maid,
bank robbery,
nothing happened today.
A silly day
passed through me today
smiling wryly.
| Scheme | x xx Abb xxx Axx bxxx xx xxca aac |
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| Metre | 001010 1 011010110101011 11011 01 111111101100100 110100 11 11 01101011 01 110011 10110111 00101101100 0 00100110101001 1111010101 0110101100 11101110 01010 010111 1100 101001 0101 11101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 677 |
| Words | 129 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This is a poem about deteriorating journalistic atmosphere where reporting negativity of a society is obsessive. Glamour and awe are the remnants of journalism in current times.
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