Silent men, Talking Machine
Basudev Karmakar 1974 (West Bengal , India)
Silent men, Talking Machine
I went to deposit in bank.
The cashier was very frank.
He silently took the voucher;
My money got a transfer.
The guard opened the gate.
I left the bank straight.
In a train I was traveling.
Only a hawker was shouting.
All were in phone;
None had any tone.
The hawker gave one a chocolate;
He tried to thrust it in my pocket.
A day I saw a friend of mine.
I beckoned him for a time.
He gestured me his phone;
Rang the message tone.
He wrote, Cll u latr'.
I replied, 'N.P. dr'.
A day only machine will talk,
Silent will be the men folk.
They will forget to laugh,
Everything will be in whatsapp.
To make them speak,
Medicine they must need.
About this poem
A day to come when none would talk. They would be busy on phone
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Written on October 03, 2023
Submitted by karmakar.basudev on October 03, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X AABBCC DDEEFF XXEEBX XXXXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 871 |
Words | 159 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
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