Analysis of My little brother
I remember the day
He was born.
It was in the morn
That he came on a sojourn
On a rainy day in June.
I remember the day
He forever closed his little eyes.
It was twilight,
The stars twinkled in silence,
A candle was burning.
Thus, his visit was too brief,
It lasted only for a few hours.
He tasted no breast milk,
His short life was confined to an incubator.
The sweetness of tender love he missed.
There-in the hospital church-yard
He was laid to eternal rest.
Born into a different religion
That was his final destination,
That was my father’s sole decision.
Life is an unplanned game,
Every soul has a pre-destined ground.
From the shores of my little world
I am reflecting on the purposes of life,
Fifty seasons are now far behind.
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Scheme | Abbxx Acxxx xxxxx xxddd xxxxxc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001 111 11001 1111010 1010101 101001 101011101 111 0110010 010110 1110111 1101010110 110111 11110111100 010110111 1001011 11110101 1010100010 11110010 111101010 111011 1001101101 10111101 110101010011 101011101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
I had a younger brother born on 08/06/1973 who returned to his heavenly abode on the same day. Being born into a different religion, my father was magnanimous to hand over the body to the church authorities connected to the hospital. Dr Mary D Small was the doctor of my mother. Somewhere under the shades of that graveyard, he must be sleeping forever.
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