Analysis of When You breathed
When you smiled; it seemed that a million lotuses fell on the parched territory of earth,
When you cried; the waves in the ocean clashed flirtatiously with the blazing chain of rocks,
When you sang; the birds in the jungle forgot to chirp and a celestial
silence descended all over,
When you ate; the most abhorrent appearing logs of charcoal seemed like golden nectar,
When you wrote; the most nonchalant of literature seemed like a string of shimmering pearls,
When you danced; all gods in heaven gathered to watch in stunned silence,
When you yawned; there seemed to be a valley of eternal bliss right down your throat,
When you were naughty; it seemed as if the most heinous of criminals around
you were small children,
When you perspired; it seemed as if the melody in your aroma pacified the most tumultuous of turmoil,
When you winked; it seemed as if springs of white froth gushed down the pristine slopes in lazy tandem,
When you walked; it seemed as if a cluster of fairies had fallen from the sky to permanently inhabit the earth,
When you slept; it seemed that the most glittering of gold was showered
unrelentingly from the cosmos,
When you bathed; it seemed as if shriveled and decayed beauty in this world had taken a new birth,
When you shivered; it seemed as if the mesmerizing night had forgotten to unveil into the sweltering day,
When you sneezed; it seemed as if lost charm and exuberance flooded back into the atmosphere,
When you blushed; it seemed as if silver bolts of lightening plummeted from the sky igniting multiple fires even in frozen water,
When you screamed; it seemed as if the profoundly gloomy ambience exploded in fury; to illuminate the blackness,
When you stared; it seemed that all the uncouth and barbaric activities were replaced by unparalleled innocence and empathy,
And when you breathed; I felt that I was re-born; and as each breath of yours caressed my skin; I felt myself more and more entangled in the bonds of your
romance.
| Scheme | A X XB B X X X XX X X A XX A X XB X X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110101110110011 111010010111010111 111010010011100010 10010110 11101010010111111010 111010111000110111001 1111101010110110 1111111010101011111 1101011110110110001 10110 1111111010001010100110011 1111111111111010101010 11111110101101101011100001001 1111110110011110 11010 11111111000110011110011 111011110100110101010101001 1111111110010010101010 11111111011100100101010100101001010 111111100101010001001010100010 1111111011001001000110101000100 01111111111011111011111110101000111 01 |
| Characters | 1,976 |
| Words | 345 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 18 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 69 |
| Words per line (avg) | 15 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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