Analysis of As Like A Tree
From childhood until my youth
I played with my friends
Under the shadow of a neem tree
Alongside the main road of the city
Right, left and its front side
The beautiful houses
I also heard from my family
And peoples that
The tree was nearly
Hundred years old,
Having a history of children
And peoples, who played
And rested under its shadow
In all seasons
Mostly in spring and summer,
When it was full
With its green leaves
And yellow mini size fruit
As time passed away; I grew up
I studied, worked, travelled,
And enjoyed the world
I noticed
Other children played the same;
As I did in my childhood
The time came, when the tree
Went dry, no more leaves
The authorities decided to cut
And pull that out, for a new tree
The breathing history
Became silenced and closed
I felt skin wrinkles upon my face
And the entire body, with a few
Grey hairs on my head
I thought; people will do the same
With me as well
Since I became inactive
And fruitless, use of nothing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 11111 10011011 0110111010 110111 010010 110111100 0101 01110 1011 100100110 01011 0101011 0110 1001010 1111 1111 0101011 11101111 110110 00101 110 1010101 111011 011101 11111 001001011 01111011 010100 011001 111100111 0001010101 11111 11101101 1111 1101010 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 925 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 764 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 182 |
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Submitted on April 04, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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