Analysis of An Unsent Letter and an Unanswered Question
Kaushik Ghosh 1979 (Calcutta)
Lazy Sunday afternoon,
Sitting in my balcony
Counting on my joyous times
Smiling on my agony.
Scattered papers on my desk -
Some new, some old and dreary-
Interleaved an unsent letter
And some unquenched query.
Distant sunshines flushed my eyes
And then drenched me some fresh rain,
Swiped me ineffable joy
And hits me unspoken pain.
Those old papers on the table
An envelop cresson,
Unsent letter in my hand
And an unanswered question.
Moments hovering on a screen,
Torn and old and turning grey-
Far off memories flashing by
Some relevant and some stray.
Breeze from outside whirled the papers
Whirled the rhyme and reason,
Unsent letter in my hand
And an unanswered question.
| Scheme | xaxa xaxa xbxb xcDC xexe xcDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10101 1001100 1011101 1011100 1010111 1111010 011110 01110 101111 0111111 1101001 0110101 11101010 101010 110011 011010 10100101 1010101 11100101 1100011 11111010 101010 110011 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 696 |
| Words | 141 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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