Mahatma! Thou Shall Be Living This Hour! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCCCCDDCCEEFGCCFCHIC ICJFKCCLMCNOPQJFF FDCFRSCFD CC| Mahatma Thou shall be living this hour | A |
| So do you understand the need of the hour | A |
| We beckon a fiercest battle every year | B |
| So come the troubles near | B |
| Divide the minds so dear | B |
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| Mahatma Thou shall come alive with flesh and blood | C |
| Thou shall see the world much democratised | C |
| A century of countries freed | C |
| A new nation is born every half a decade | C |
| Not only of struggle and deed | C |
| From the clutches of the colonial throbbing | D |
| Exploitation of the reform Maneuvering | D |
| But of the creed that we swallowed | C |
| This was the time's demand | C |
| And the freedom that has come has come | E |
| With all the elements that are troublesome | E |
| Freedom was possible if not achieved fully | F |
| Equality and equity are alluring elusive | G |
| Thine India forged ahead | C |
| Amidst a billion problems facing ahead | C |
| While we salute Thee on nd October and th January | F |
| We never forget the Last who you loved unto the last | C |
| Who in realism lost the very gene of life | H |
| We never forget him | I |
| We strive to keep him till the last | C |
| So the need would arise to serve him | I |
| As we 'celebrate' Martyr's Day | C |
| Amidst us are there your killers | J |
| What a realization paying homage to Thee | F |
| As their ideology changed along with time | K |
| Now for them you are a son not the father of the land | C |
| As you came late to their land | C |
| Thousands of years after Buddha | L |
| You are fortunate to die a blissful death | M |
| Not to witness your land | C |
| In the hands of the 'modern builders' of the nation | N |
| And the new ideologues | O |
| Like the camouflaged foxes among the goats | P |
| You would not have died a more glorious death than this | Q |
| Said a philosopher of philosophers | J |
| While you glorified Death and sanctified the Leveller | F |
| We glorified ourselves to power | F |
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| Mahatma Thou shall be living this hour | F |
| Or we shall be dying | D |
| Had you not taught us the means to fight | C |
| We would have got our freedom from the colonial power | F |
| But not from bloodshed hatred bias | R |
| Where fathers bury their sons | S |
| Mother witness their daughter s modesty robbed | C |
| Mahatma Thou shall be living this hour | F |
| Or we shall be dying | D |
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| Gandhi s Birth Date | C |
| Gandhi s Martyrdom day | C |
Ramanujam Meganathan
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Poet's note: This is a thoughtful thinking on Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian nation.
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