Analysis of The Month of Poush
Kazi Nazrul Islam 1899 (Churulia) – 1976 (Dhaka)
Lo! Winter comes!
She comes across an ocean of sorrow and tears.
Beware! Beware!
She comes from behind the horizon enveloped
in thick mist.
With her advent, alas! in the Ieafy forest
A farewell dirge seems to go round
The parting Day (Ah me!) casts a sad look
Losing as she does-the Evening Star that
lights her path.
See! Winter sets in -
She represents the sadness of the year's
journey, a loss of Eternity,
The farewell season of ripe paddy,
the dread of new arrival-
Beware! Beware! She is come! -
Dry breath, and Oh! the choked voice
of a farewell deeply laden with tears -
Arise, wayfarer! Thou hast to cover
a long distance casting a sad look
from thy black eyes.
[Translation: Abdul Hakim]
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 110111011001 0101 111010010010 011 1010100110 0111111 0101111011 1011101011 101 11010 101010101 100110100 01101110 0111010 0101111 1101011 101101011 01111110 011010011 1111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 789 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 21, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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