Analysis of When I Forgot My Fathers Name



His name was "Turupa"
Meaning the reproach favourite
But he gave birth to me in the village
When the people just retuned tired from their long duty.

I had to grow up in the ashes
I mean ashes of the wretched streets
With the burden of the whole world well placed
on my helpless and bruised strange head

With strokes of tears i kept crawling along
I mean along in the village lineage
not better than a hopless jungle
But before they died,

No one among the line has ever seen the sun set over his head,
They have all passed through the shadows of the dark moonlight.

Sundenly in a trance
I woke up from my  slumber
Slumber of the centuries that has charmed our ooze of life
In an hour i felt a hand laid at  my shallow shoulders
with a fainted voice

Which said my name is yellow!
Meaning enough of your reproach
In a jiffy i was there with him in the land of the yellow clouds
Where mortals do not die in labour and the streets laiden in golds

Sunddenly i saw the sun set
Setting above my traded head-set
And when the option came i had no choice than yellow!
Yellow! is my name that brougth me to meet with my destiny

That brougth my glorious head to sunset
This was when i forgot
My fathers name.


Scheme XABA XXAA XBXA AA XXXXX CXXX AACX AAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 100011 1111110010 1010111011110 111110010 111010101 1010101111 11100111 1111111001 11010010100 11010110 10111 11010111010111011 11111011011 1001 1111110 101010011110111 011011011111010 10101 1111110 10011101 00101111100110101 11011101001101 111011 100111011 0101011111110 101111111111100 111100111 111101 1101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,166
Words 233
Sentences 7
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on April 21, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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