Unfinished Letter



Letters strewn on the mosaic floor.
Yellowed papers like autumn leaves
Littered around. Blank letters, weaving
Obscure idiom of suppressed griefs.
Blank letters like blank verse, rumpled
And blemished. Unsaid words reveal
Undone works. A tomb unborn
For a soul undead and wounds unhealed.
Alphabets of unfinished gravestones
Accumulate on the cemetery of parchment.
Moss of despair gathers on the obelisk
Of expression. Confused vocables sing lament.
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Submitted by abhijit_c on April 25, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCBDEFDGHCI
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 439
Words 67
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

Abhijit Chatterjee

Born in Burdwan, a suburb of Kolkata, he completed his Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. more…

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