Analysis of Echoes of time



Echoes of time
By Abdullah Al Mamun

An old tomb cracked in the middle,
Gradually caving down,
To be devoured by eternity.
The last tear drop of a mourner had dried up a few centuries ago.
The last footsteps of a visitor had fallen silent many generations ago.
The last floral wreath had turned into dust who knows when.
Sadness echoes from soul to soul.
Happiness lives through hearts.
A life comes to an end within a blink of an eye.
Time carves with its chisel,
Moulds,
And remoulds.
Yet inside it is raw
and fresh;
Like a lover’s heart.
Storm came, storm went,
Not once, not twice,
One after the other,
Leaving behind a trail of destruction.
However hard I tried,
The rainbow melted through the fingers.
I sit now, and look behind,
Time and again,
In content and discontent,
In apprehension,
Lest my time comes unexpectedly,
And In silence.


Scheme XA BACDDAXEXBXEXXXFXXAXXXAFACX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 11011 11110010 1000101 1101010100 011110101110110001 01110100110101001001 0110111011111 10101111 100111 0111110101111 111110 1 01 101111 01 10101 1111 1111 110010 1001011010 10111 01101010 1110101 1001 0100001 0010 11110100 0010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 849
Words 180
Sentences 12
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 27
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 332
Words per stanza (avg) 76
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