Analysis of Why?

Glory Sasikala 1964 (Kolkata)



There was no destiny
No mercy
No rationale
No omen
No prediction
No protection
And no God.

Just a shoot out.


Scheme AAXBBBX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111100 110 101 110 1010 1010 011 1011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 101
Words 21
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Glory Sasikala

Glory Sasikala is a writer, poet and publisher from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Editor and Publisher of GloMag, the international monthly online poetry and prose magazine, and is administrator of the group of the same name on Facebook. She is the creator of ‘The Chennai Ladies’ series of E-books on Amazon.com. more…

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