Prayer of a Broom to God
Much I have swept the floor, the veranda, the yard,
and all the passages of the house.
I do not know, in which intoxication or hobby,
the rough hand of our housewife has made
all surroundings neat and tidy by using me every day.
How many brooms there are to accomplish
such simple household chores!
O God, manage for me such a vigorous sweeper
who will sweep with me the whole earth once.
How much the earth is polluted with terrorism
and how many garbage and waste are lying on all sides of earth
as if it were a corpse swollen with rottenness!
It is spreading rapturously a terrible bad smell
and the air is getting wet more and more.
O God, manage today such a vigorous sweeper for me
who will sweep the whole earth only once.
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Submitted on November 27, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABXX XXXC XXAXX BC |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 138 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 2 |
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