Analysis of The Banyan Tree
Hamlet and her quietness,
A temple and her serenity,
The fields and her windy meads
And a banyan tree centuries old.
Her sprawling foliage,
A passing life's secured roof.
Before their flight unto the slumbering hills
Winds take here a momentary rest.
And under her shady canopy
Gods witness eternal space and time.
Cows take a mid-noon nap, and
A piper unto the blues opens his melodious lute.
And for fresh air and rejuvenating moments
A few passers-by find here a resting place.
To beggars, she lends her cool breezes
And to birds, her swinging branches.
And in the eve' the retirees of the hamlet
On her stony pavements gather, life is a gentle brook.
It is now twilight and within her closing notes
A solitary lamp burns unto the silence of night.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1000100 010000100 0100101 001011001 01010 0101011 01111001001 11101001 010010100 110010101 1101110 010100110101001 01110010010 01101110101 110110110 01101010 000100111010 10101010110101 11110010101 0100111001011 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Generally in South India, Banyan trees are grown around the temples. Every such tree is a vast resource of Oxygen. The tree is considered sacred. One can witness many passing scenes of life under this banyan tree and the poem describes them.
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