Analysis of Atha Mariamma
This is not our father.
She is a goddess called Mother in our Village.
It's not magic or strategy
It is God who heals wounds of people
If you pay some salt to her
That goddess will have mercy.
When we get any wart in our body
Let's take a hair from the hair and tie it and we pray
All the pimples fall off like flowers,
In the next festival
Let's pay politely by pouring some salt on the feet of our deity.
If our children get measles
Let's pray for Atta to save us.
If there is a sixteen-day period from neem bed
Atha will protect our children
How the mother is so helpful
for the growth of a child
Our Muthumari Amman is like a companion
She will accompany us in our lives.
If our parched farmland needs rain
When we plant sprouts in the pot
She will make it rain
People and other living things get wet
by the rain of Aatha's grace
I don't know if I worship my mother in my home
We Tamils worship our mother in every street
She is the Atha Mariamman who dwells in our hearts.
Scheme | AXBCABBXXCB XXXDCXDX EXEXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 1101011001010 11101100 111111110 1111110 1101110 11110101010 1101101011011 101011110 001100 1101011011101110100 11010110 11110111 1110011100111 101011010 10101110 101101 10110110010 11010010101 1101111 1111001 11111 1001010111 101111 1111110110011 10110101001001 110101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,010 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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