Gilbert and the Spiritual Ghost (3/10)




(Continued from 2/10)

While the days are passing
Gilbert was becoming
more sad and sad
because his only sister
(younger than four years)
was gradually dying
because of scarlet fever.

All the doctors of the
township came,
all the medicine men came,
they even went to
the next big town
for her treatment,
but, nothing was working
and day by day
her health was deteriorating.

One day came,
she did not wake up,
and Gilbert was the first person
to observe this-
he yield, “Mother,
sister is not waking up!”

Entire community came,
they used to love her very much
because of her politeness and beauty-
they came all together
they mourn all together
they sympathized all together
and left,
while Gilbert was
standing alone, with her
motionless body.

Thereafter,
the preacher came-
all took her dead body
for the funeral,
the preacher state those words
Gilbert already memorized,
but, his sadness
never abridged for a single moment.

Continued…

About this poem

Pure fiction. Any similarity should be treated as mere coincidence.

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Submitted by hakikur on January 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X AAXBXAB XCCXXDAXA CEXXBE CXFBBBXXBF BCFXXXXD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 977
Words 203
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 7, 9, 6, 10, 8

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