Analysis of What He Actually Considered Man
For him man was not as disdainfully black as charcoal; or as white as the impeccable crusts of ice-cream,
For him man was not as tall as the mountains; or as weak as the diminutive ant,
For him man was not as rich as the royal king; or as impoverished as the beggar shivering on the streets,
For him man was not as intellectual as the ingenious scientist; or as dumb as the lunatic imprisoned within the corridors of the mental asylum,
For him man was not as strong and tenacious as the towering elephant; or as meek as the minuscule mosquito,
For him man was not as robust as the rubicund apple; or as fragile and rotten as the sprinkled garbage,
For him man was not as sacrosanct as the sagacious saint; or as hideous as the diabolical devil,
For him man was not as fast as the contemporary computer; or as lazy as the pig lying unwashed on the slopes for weeks,
For him man was not as fat as the ostentatiously inflated balloon; or as thin as the neglected strand of the broomstick,
For him man was not as educated as the literary scholar; or as illiterate as the clerk who used his thumb and toe to sign the documents,
For him man was not as beautiful as the mesmerizing fairy; or as satanic as the witch hovering around in the haunted house,
For him man was not as successful as the dynamic Business tycoon; or as maimed as the bleary eyed boy polishing boots on the street,
For him man was not as sharp as the stupendously sighted hawk; or as dark as the baby born perpetually blind,
For him man was not as supernatural as the magician executing astounding tricks; or as normal as the student slogging overwhelmingly hard to pass his examinations,
For him man was not as impeccable as golden honey; or as appalling as the uncouth murderer wandering at will in the open valley,
For him man was not as perfect and meticulous as the invincible angel; or as prone as the inevitably erring teenager,
For him man was not as brilliant as the flamboyant body of the fiery Sun; or as morbid as the corpse slithering on earth,
For him man was not as belligerent as the gleaming knife; or as soggy as salubrious cherries nestling on the cake,
For him man was not as mature and prudent as the owl; or as imbecile as the new born infant,
For him man was not as fragrant as the incredulously voluptuous rose; or as decaying as the dead fish lying still on the shores,
For him man was not as bearded as the dense foliage of the jungle; or as clean shaven as the ducks floating on tepid pools of water,
And for the Creator man was not a 'Hindu', 'Muslim', 'Christian', 'Buddhist'; or one following 'Hinduism', 'Islam', 'Christianity', 'Buddhism'.etc.,
What he actually considered man was an entity which he had evolved as a pair of flesh and bones on this planet; a mouth to speak and two eyes to sight; who had the ability to procreate millions of his kind; who had the unflinching ability to keep his Universe moving; and over and above all one who had the uncanny ability to keep the paradise of his dreams always and immortally alive.
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Metre | 11111111111111001001111 111111110101111001001 111111110101110101010100101 11111101001001010011110100100101001010010 11111110010101001001111010010 11111101101101110010101010 11111110010111110010010010 11111111001000101110101100110111 111111110010001001111100101101 1111111001010010110100101111101110100 1111111001010010110101011000100101 1111110101001010011111010111001101 111111110110111110101010001 11111101001001010001011110101010010011110010 11111101001101011010101110010011001010 11111101001001001001011110010001010 111111101001010101001111010110011 1111110100101011110111010101 1111110101010111100101110 1111111010101001110101011101101 1111111010110101011110101101101110 0100101110111111100100111 1110001011110011101101110111100111011111100100110110111110010010011110100100011111001001001101011110101 |
Characters | 3,029 |
Words | 562 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 23 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 104 |
Words per line (avg) | 24 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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