Analysis of Buried Child
There is country far away,
Where “women” travel to a temple to worship a “woman deity” to pray for “her” pregnant “daughter” to give birth to a ….. son.
May god hear their prayers, bcuz the land in this country may not exist due to the burden of the buried girl child
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1110101 11010101011001010011101010111101 111111010110110111010101011 |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 67 |
| Words per line (avg) | 18 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
About this poem
Inspired by a movie I saw where parents pray for a male child…and daughters are drowned or buried
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Written on February 01, 2022
Submitted by jotiaujla on March 31, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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