Analysis of Starry Days Sunny Nights
Kaushik Ghosh 1979 (Calcutta)
There are days when I would chase the Sun
And are days when it is after me,
Star light leads me back to home some nights,
Some nights I'm lost in a blind alley.
Chilly wind keeps whistling to my ears,
Old tales that I've forgotten for long,
The night birds sing as I drive past by -
An uncanny unfathomable song.
The swishing leaves asks me to speed up
And the old moon reminds me my home,
Home, where I always want to get back
A ghetto, I would rather disown.
There are times the thunder knocks me down
And are moments I remain unmoved
There are seasons I radiate joy,
There are eons when life keeps me grooved.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 111111101 011111101 111111111 111100110 101110111 111101011 011111111 1010010001 01111111 001101111 11111111 010111001 111010111 011010101 111011001 111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 597 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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