Analysis of Someday the Stars
Mir Reenaz Nawar 2006 (Dhaka)
It’s dark where I live, and it’s very cold too.
Here the seas are green, the grass is blue,
And silence is the loudest noise you can make.
And not a single soul can whisper
Nor could a heart so much as prosper
Thus, it’s just the lonely roads I take.
I am naught but a ghost of something I was,
I am naught but the echo of screams.
I am but a prisoner to my own words,
I am naught but a shatter of dreams
So, it’s through the lonely roads I walk.
Somedays the stars shine with warmth and light,
When I’m all alone and cold at night
Somedays the stars sing my praise
But most days they’re a distant haze
So I fly through the lonely skies, like a hawk.
For surely I don’t need the light,
If all I could want is there at night
Surely I don’t need
Lullabies to sing me to sleep
For the silence, it reaches so deep
Enough for me to breathe
As it cuts through me and leaves me to bleed.
I need only the lonely, incessant rains
I’m fighting a devil who takes on many forms.
The devil is me –
But I refuse to have another soul perish in my storms
I’m caught up in my own hurricanes
And so, I choose to sail through the lonely seas
Amidst the chilling and salty breeze
Here I will die and here I will wake.
Where the waves are a tall and menacing being
With a mind of its own, it stops me from fleeing
How cruel is it that I’ve naught but the lonely paths to take?
Scheme | A A B C C B X D X D E F F G G E F F H I I X H J K X K J L L B M M B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011011 101110111 01010101111 010101110 110111110 111010111 11110111011 111101011 11101001111 111101011 111010111 10111101 111010111 101111 11110101 11110101101 11011101 111111111 10111 1011111 101011011 011111 1111101111 11100100101 110010111101 01011 110111010110011 11101110 01111110101 010100101 111101111 101101010010 101111111110 110111111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,361 |
Words | 280 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 34 |
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, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on February 01, 2021
Modified on March 28, 2023
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