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The song of life

Hakikur Rahman

Free verse
The helmsman, the cultivator of the village
Come everybody come
Go to the quay, go to the field
Time flies.

You have to raise the sail
We have to join helm to the plow
River water is surging
Waves playing in the paddy field.

Flood is in the river today
Harvest Binny rice for the next season
There is no time to sit idle
Get up by fastening the waist.

About this poem

Binny is a special type of rice that is used to make roasted rice in greater Bengal.

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Submitted by hakikur on June 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAX XXXA XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 340
Words 70
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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