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The Death of A Cockroach

Josekumar. K. K

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A comely Cockroach that
I saw in my toilet
Moved it's whiskers
Caught a Moth in it's mouth tips

Fluttered hither and thither
Enjoying itself there
Flustered me in the flurry
Waved my hands against the intruder

Suddenly it fell into the toilet
I flushed the toilet
That comely Cockroach
Caught in the whirlpool

It wheeled wheezed whined and whelmed
What is our fate  it is God who deemed.

About this poem

This poem is about fate that we don't know the ways of fate affect us.

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Written on October 10, 2020

Submitted by Josekumarkk on November 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXX CCCC BBXX AX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 390
Words 72
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
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Josekumar. K. K

born in the year 1952,postgraduate in English litterateur now practices as an advocate kottarakara kollam krerala. more…

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