Analysis of Who taught them?
Who taught them to sing the National hymns?
Who taught them to suffer anything, everything and more?
Who taught them to shut their mouths on inequity?
Who taught them to chant soprano to their ugly leaders?
Who taught them to sit nameless forever and forever?
Who taught them to remain smiling; even when their charity being ransacked?
Who taught them, who taught them; they have no right even to a name-
When they are gang-raped, murdered and shattered on the streets?
I don't know, don't know, don't know,
If anybody knows, please tell me, tell me.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101001 111110101001 111111110100 11111010111010 11111100100010 111101101011100101 111111111110101 1111110010101 1111111 11000111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 541 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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