Analysis of A singular cup of tea
Tanuja Thakur 1967 (Haldwani)
A singular cup of tea…for all those who love their tea.
There was a singular cup of tea,
on the table between him and me.
The silence made all the conversation,
so we didn’t have to speak.
My thoughts go back to that one day when,
our paths crossed on my school holidays.
During a roller coaster ride to the hills,
the bus stuttered and halted refusing to proceed.
The driver announced an unscheduled stop,
and my cramped feet got down for a hot cup.
I speeded across the road to a tea stall,
and bumped against the boy in a rush.
One cup of hot tea we shouted in unison,
and lo and behold, we were handed just one!
“You drink”, he gallantly offered,
“We will share”, I shyly volunteered.
The sugar was just right and the flavour perfect,
it was perhaps the best tea I have ever had.
I sipped from the cup and he from the saucer,
We hardly spoke but my heart fluttered.
The journey ended and
he and I went our ways.
What if !I wondered often,
but somehow we never met.
He chanced upon me in a cafe today,
his dimples intact on his wrinkled face.
“You can’t be having coffee on this beautiful day,
Let me take you to the best tea shop in this place”, he said.
So here we are sitting across each other,
raising a toast to serendipity.
The singular cup of tea between us,
a witness to a budding romance? may be!
Tanuja, September 2022
Scheme | A AABX XCXXXX XXBB DXXXED XCBX FXFX EAXAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001111111111 110100111 101001101 010110010 111111 111111111 101111110 10010101101 011010010101 0100110101 0111111011 11001011011 010101001 111111100100 01001101011 11110010 11111001 01011100101 110101111101 11101011010 110111110 010100 1011101 1111010 111101 11011000101 1100111101 1111010111001 11111011101111 11111001110 100110100 0100111011 01010100111 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,385 |
Words | 296 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 6, 4, 6, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
It’s about love that can happen at any time of our life. And how we should always give it a chance!
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