Worldly devoirs



A night's sleep should be enough
To extuingish the worries that engulf...
Singing cuckoos on the window sills
Not too experienced of the worldly drills.

Skimming through the pages of
The novel that I'd read,
The humming from my grandmother
As sweet and nice as a pearl bead.

The fallen leaves curl on the roof
That stirs as a one in the early winter winds
I brush away the duff, softly enough,
Not to shoo off the lovely pigeons
For a threateningly loud scuff.

The sparrows and pigeons
Are lovely, swift and sweet,
But I have devoirs incomplete
To walk on this worldly street!
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Submitted by srinivas237 on April 29, 2022

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBB XXXX XXACA CDDD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 582
Words 115
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 4

Aditya Narayan Chakraborty

A teen enthusiast in nature and life poetry (and patriotic), who loves to read books as a life-long hobby and exploring the depths of my perception of the language through my writing skills. more…

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