Analysis of The Storm that came
N. Gamage 1974 (Sri Lanka)
The wind is so cool and quiet
Not like the other day
It played havoc, maniac as it was
For a moment or two ,passed
Corridors, street walls painted in red
Daily ruts, who would have thought about all this ?
Amid storms and hurricanes, a way is marked
Who would have meddled with all that?
Time is all that be
Who watches all the time
Something like a big old tower keep ticking
Every day and night, for wedding and funeral too,
An old thinned cat, searching something among the tit-bits
Left at a bend
With a boy, whose looks were outrageous
They looked the heavy storm overnight was trivial
The major troubles it had created over the city.
They were least troubled over that.
There were many others with them
The wind blew soft to a greater distance ahead
Sieving and conceiving in the wings of mild toss
Yellow flowers petals fallen off ,in heaps and heaps
In past,
The lamp was gone
Who is going to light up for them?
Who can sort the things out?
Scheme | XX XABXXCDXXXXXXXDCE BXXAXEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111010 110101 111010111 1010111 100111001 10111110111 0110100111 1111111 11111 110101 10101110110 10010111001001 1111101001011 1101 101110010 1101011011100 010101101010010 10110101 10101011 011110101001 100010001111 1010101010101 01 0111 111011111 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 970 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 17, 7 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
About this poem
It was about a particular storm and how it gave destruction on people and their property. As many storms passed, this too was just another.
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Written on November 12, 2022
Submitted by nithagamage05_1 on November 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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