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Ode to a Woman

Bikas Sharma

Haiku
The smoldering fires
The placid waters
The light breeze
The graceful ease
The veritable bedlam of spring
Song that birds sing
Boldness of the wild
Innocence of a child
The valley profound
Horizons unfound
The glimpse of a countenance
"Scent of a Woman!"

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Written on rainy day in 1994 in a bus after a brief encounter with a girl in the elevator!

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Written on June 24, 1994

Submitted by bikas03 on January 30, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDDEDFG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 257
Words 48
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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