Analysis of The Flood



Awakened from a sweet slumber
On that fateful August morning
Brooding over the harvest fest,
that was just a wink away

Rain was pouring with an ire
Hell hath no fury as rain God's wrath
With every passing moment
Rain took a monstrous form

I prayed and whined to the rain god
Stop being so callous and greedy
I cursed the rain ,which I loved the most
Paradox is when fantasy is slayed by reality

Peeping through the window
I blinked my eyes in disbelief
For my haven turned into a sea
It's   spreading as ocean infinite

The trees and fields submerged to one
One big pool having no restrains
Shameless rain didn't stop its play
Tadpoles,Reptiles merged in the water

A flood that occurred after a century
The rain God filled with fury
Blame it on karma, karma
Whose karma is it  ? anyway!


Scheme AXXB XXXX XCXC XXCX XXBA CCXB
Poetic Form
Metre 01010110 11101010 10100101 1110101 1110111 111101111 11001010 110101 11011011 110110010 110111101 101110011110 101010 1111001 111010101 110110100 01010111 11110101 10110111 110010 01101100100 0111110 1111010 1101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 796
Words 155
Sentences 2
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 24

About this poem

Its an autobiographical poem, its about the Flood of 2018 which shattered the dreams of thousands of people in kerala, India.

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Submitted by Vidyamenon on March 24, 2023

Modified on April 10, 2023

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