A CAGED BIRD

Kavya Talwar 2005 (Delhi NCR)



I lived in a jungle where I was born,
I was offered to eat sweet corn

My life was filled with happiness,
I was free and cared with kindness

Plants and trees were my bestie,
Lions and tigers were my family

One day I came across a strange world,
That was full of pollution and dirt

I was scared of that new world,
When suddenly someone caged me up

My heart was pumping faster and faster,
I could not think what could go disaster

The only thing that came to my mind,
was I am a bird of free kind

I tried my best to leap down,
But now I was a caged bird of human town

About this poem

Story of a bird, that relates the readers to the reality behind the materialistic world.

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Written on July 21, 2022

Submitted by Talwarrajni11 on July 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CX CC CX DD CC EE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 577
Words 138
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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