Analysis of The search of "Me"
Ose Swaraj 2004 (India)
Miles I travelled in the search of me ...
Asked the strangers the definitions, the laws of the universe, if they knew who I was but,
more of questions they gave me; answers still unknown.
At last I reached an ocean, a dead end, asked if it also had stories to tell, and
it did talk but I, couldn’t hear yet, I felt...
Tears met the ground, heart was numb.
I turned back, saw my journey and realised I went astray, I was wrong...
Why was I searching for me elsewhere and everywhere when I was supposed to look into my reflection, into my eyes...
Should have travelled to the soul through them,
asking questions to me,
it would have led to nowhere but me...
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111000111 101000100110101111111 111011110101 111111001111110110110 1111111111 1101111 1111110011101111 1111011101011101110110100111 111010111 101011 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
About this poem
The journey towards answering the question - "Who am I?"
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Written on June 14, 2022
Submitted by swarajose on August 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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