Analysis of Biscooti Love
Memory is… images of a prepubescent boy cycling home,
Parag milk packets in one of his arms,
feeding biscuits to a stray gaggle of brown dogs, wagging their shins.
Large half-moon eyes, kind salivating tongue,
his smile showed no cookie-crescent as he fed them all;
he was my first love.
More than the girls, the calves and canines knew his way home,
this small-towner of a bygone Bhaarat who found humans in animals,
he grew hunger in me.
Now in this morphing, super-quick India, his animals are holographic.
His love fades cookie-slim into the sun of many states, tastes, time zones.
He has not one trail from work to home, but ten homes.
He, the colour of chocolate, almond-abdomened,
he found love in many cities,
technology-girls,
animals in liberated women,
who fed off his glucose, milk, sugar, marmalade;
they never grew thin.
Over the trail of his virgin-white honey, the scent of shudh desi,
Old world in new crackling wrapping,
always with a 30% improved marking.
Bearing the saccharine of my bites and goosebumps,
he now breaks under my neurotic granular breath.
chai mein dubha hua - tea-dunked, wafer-thin, milk crux-ed.
My Pickwick, Marie, Parle G, Tiger,
Oreo, Bourbon, mall-shelved Belgian,
online baked-and-ordered
same old-same new,
premium cream-crunched love.
Scheme | ABB XXC AXD XXX EXXFEX DGG BXE XFEXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110010111001 0111001111 1010101101111011 111111001 1111101011111 11111 110101011111 1110101111100100 111001 1011010110011001010 11110101011101111 111111111111 101110101 11101010 01001 100010010 1111111010 11011 10011110110011110 11011010 1100110 1001011101 1111010101001 1111011101111 11011110 100101110 11010 1111 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,274 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 6, 3, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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