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Why

Farheen Alam 2006 (west bengal)

Free verse
The codependency in nature
why yearn for independence?
variation in the perception
progressive yet retrogressive.

Is it leaving your beloved?
Isolating from the world?
 How it tastes?
How it smells?
Let others define us?

Is it measure of the self-worth?
obedient to the old adages ,
ideologies passed  down generations?
What to hold on to,
Laser focus on career?


Something more than shame
guilty projected by society
the accountability of yourself
exploring the ocean of knowledge.

About this poem

this poem is about a teenager's introspection, questioning societal norms and her thinking.

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Written on July 12, 2006

Submitted by firozalam31121976 on December 26, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXB XXXXX XAXXX XXBX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 485
Words 91
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 4
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