Analysis of When he is fifty.
When he is fifty.
A man of fifty years,
what does he want?
Does he want good reputation?
Or high rank in the society?
Or life style like celebrity?
Good education of his children?
Better health of his wife?
What more does he need in his life?
He wants the child
who was in him forty years back.
He wants that daring young
who didn't believe in luck.
He wants that health
which was precious than any wealth.
Still he can remember his first love letter.
He becomes nostalgic in his leisure.
| Scheme | A XX BAA BCC XXXXDD EE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 011101 1111 1111010 111000100 11110100 10101110 101111 11111011 1101 11011011 111101 1100101 1111 11101101 11101011110 1010100110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3, 3, 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted by swarupbhattacharya263 on January 17, 2024
Modified by swarupbhattacharya263 on January 17, 2024
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