Analysis of The Long-Forgotten Curly-Horned Buffaloes On A Rainy Afternoon



The Long-Forgotten Curly-Horned Buffaloes On A Rainy Afternoon

It rained for sure
And just about, the non-existent
Smoke aspired, to recreate existence
For itself… to match the grey and
Fogginess of here and much around.

But what a sight of tinkling bells
Around the necks of these: Such beautiful and sturdy brutes,
Black and big… with toned down
Pace—curly horns and plodding gait,
The aura so created thus: of
Shiny classic buffaloes.

The smells remind me of my youth,
A prolonged childhood does indeed
Infuse myself into the now
To fast become the quintessence,
The me I’d longed for until now—
Rustic, brave and overgrown.

It’s different now that I have seen
The buffaloes with blackest sheen
Plodding now on blackened roads,
Much like their own smooth ivoried selves,
The mist a-forming into space,
They smile, it seems, into the air,
And one becomes the scene out there!

Who knew that blessings shower themselves
In scenes created on their own
With herds of beasts that plod
Our ground, to play some music
And resound the COSMOS on a tarred road…
Forget not then— Our dearest brutes—
These living creatures circumscribe
To much that lays beyond our grasp
To kindle and to celebrate some order
Higher than what’s seen!


Scheme X XXAXX XAXXXA XXBABC DDXEXFF ECXXXAXXXD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 010101011101001 1111 010101010 101110010 10111010 1110101 110111001 01011111000101 101111 11010101 010101011 10101 01011111 0011101 0110101 11010010 01111011 101001 110011111 011101 1011101 1111111 01010011 11110101 01010111 111101001 01010111 111111 10111110 010101011 011110101 1101001 111101101 1100110110 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,267
Words 238
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 6, 6, 7, 10
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 35

About this poem

In our overwhelming responses to Europe and the love for foreign landscapes, we forget the wholesome charms of our own surroundings. This is a depiction of a drizzly afternoon when a herd of buffaloes are suddenly seen to be plodding through the lonely lanes.

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Written on January 12, 2024

Submitted by arunapandeyuor on February 11, 2024

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