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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Poetic Form
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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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Written on June 25, 1991

Submitted by ravi_panamanna on December 11, 2023

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Ravi Panamanna

My actual name is Subramanian A. I am a retired official of the State Bank of India. Settled in Palakkad, Kerala, India. My literary awards include The Barath Award for Literature (best story), and the Poiesis Awards both in Poetry and short story, all conducted jointly by Xpress publications.com. My interests cover photography, philosophy, and science. Google search under Ravi Panamanna would take the searcher to my various links. more…

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