Analysis of Birth and growth of a country
Agrik Majumdar 2005 (Kolkata)
Birth and growth of a country
~Agrik Majumdar
Those days that he would just sit on in his classroom,
Before he saw through and beyond the concrete walls,
Fighters, not much different from others, and their calls
To join a dream for freedom, freedom of their country to dream.
The young student released all his comrades on his prison break,
And proudly stood alone, hands tied, and a rope about his neck.
He had written an anthem and thousands felt it in their blood,
The poet’s mind knew no limits, his pen sparked revolution,
Yet on that ‘free’ dawn, they divided into separate nations,
Nations which stood for bodies of power, and not it’s people
Who hated one another, blind that they shared the same sun ray.
The poet couldn’t preach the greater meaning of ‘Independence Day’.
And decades after that blood shed on either bank of the river,
The aspiring voted leader came upon a dire choice,
He chose to bribe his way to win, to raise his voice,
To lay the roads, build a school, a hospital for his village,
But he questioned his ways and was aware of his fading fire
To serve his people and later stopped thinking other than his own desire.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 11 11111111011 011110010011 1011100110011 110111010111011 01100111111101 010101110010111 111011001011011 01011110111010 111111010011010 101111011001110 110101011110111 010110101010101 0011011111011010 00101010101011 111111111111 11011010101110 1110110101111010 1111001011010111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,162 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
About this poem
Journey of a young boy with the journey of the nation
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Written on August 15, 2022
Submitted by ankita.roshni on August 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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