Analysis of This is life
Tears when first splashed off your tiny young eyes,
The news as a petrichor had spread far and wide.
In the minds were being built propitious dreams,
Embellished with hopes to support in your blues and your greens.
Today, when tears splash off your tiny old eyes,
Except for the evergreen tree of lies,
You find no shoulder to brood and to grieve,
There lies scattered and shattered your hopes and your dreams which you once wished to weave.
This is life!
This is life!
Once, when you laid in your cotton chambered bed,
Moaning and grieving calming your embarrassed soul,
Soon, you discover yourself amidst the smiles of your cherished lads,
Fighting them to leave and wanting to mourn alone.
Today, dominates your face a winsome smile,
Reminiscing the influence of a handful of uninfluential souls.
Synchronously weeping recollecting the cherished laughter of cherished ones for a while,
Requesting lord to return back those he unanticipatedly stole.
This is life!
This is life!
Scheme | axxx aabb CC xdxx exed CC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) |
Metre | 1111111011 0110111101 00101010101 01011101011011 01111111011 011010111 1111011011 111001011011111111 111 111 11110110101 100101010101 1101001010111101 101110101101 0110110101 0100100101111 110010010101101101 010110111111 111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 993 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Today the things at which we cry, tomorrow we laugh remembering those while today the things at which we laugh, tomorrow we cry remembering those. This poem revolves around the above idea. I wrote it during the tough times in lockdown last year to comfort and express myself through this magnificent tool called poetry. Happy reading, hope you like it! :)
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