Analysis of Musings of a Hopeful Tree

Jacob Parappally 1953 (Ayarkunnam/Kottayam)



Musings of a Hopeful Tree

Roots were cut one after another
Letting me die a painful death
Leaves were drying and falling faster
Than when I was in good health.

Worms were crawling over my roots
Drinking my sap from  my trunk
My strength was failing sucked by brutes
And my bark was almost shrunk

All the leaves of mine had fallen
Except for a feeble twig
Proof left behind from what stolen
Appears to others not so big.

But that was life for me to muse
From a tiny root that makes me hope
Till someone  cuts me to  use
For something better than I dared to hope


Scheme X AXAX BCBC DEDE XFXF
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 101110010 10110101 101001010 1111011 10101011 1011111 11110111 011111 10111110 0110101 11011110 01110111 11111111 101011111 111111 1101011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 583
Words 119
Sentences 3
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

It is all about hope in a hopeless situation. It's message is never give up till the end of your life

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Written on February 02, 2023

Submitted by parappally on February 02, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jacob Parappally

Prof. Dr. Jacob Parappally MSFS holds a doctorate in Theology from the University of Freiburg, Germany .. He was teaching systematic theology at Jnana-Deepa, Pontifical Institute, Pune, India where he served as the dean of the Faculty of Theology. He has published 11 books and more than 250 theological articles. He is the chief editor of the Journal of Indian Theology. more…

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