Analysis of Even as a child
Even as a child
my face was “gloomy.” I found
few reasons to smile, none to laugh:
father gutting his great gifts
for the cheers of clowns.
For us. For money. My mother
dazed by drugs. My brother
charming, selfless. But also
smirking, corrupt. All lying,
and loving each other. Comedy?
From the fool’s angle, the coward’s angle. Laughter
means turning your back on suffering.
And on the hard truth that tragedy
writes the last act—always. I loved
the sea because it said that.
With infinite dignity and calm
and terrible firmness.
Knowing too well
the struggle and sorrow of life I tried hard
to believe, to help. In plays I wanted
to bring our past alive—the brave dreams.
But probing deep I saw cruelty, decay.
In my last year I could only rage
that our country too had cast away
the best chance ever—like my father!
For greed, blind greed, we grew deaf
to the one question that matters, “What
does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but...”
Damn! Damn our dumb callousness.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 1111011 11011111 1010111 10111 11110110 111110 1010110 1001110 010110100 101100101010 110111100 010111100 1011111 0101111 110010001 010010 1011 01001011111 1011101110 1110101011 1101111001 011111101 1101011101 011101110 1111111 101101101 1110011110111 11101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,010 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 12 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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