Full Title: Night of the Scorpion.

 Author: Nissim Ezekiel.

 Life Duration: 1924 to 2004..

 Written Date: Around the late 1950s.

 Published Date: First published in 1965.

 First Collected In: The Exact Name (1965).

 Publisher: Various Indian and international poetry anthologies.

 Genre: Narrative poem and social commentary.

 Form: Free verse poem with storytelling tone.

 Rhyme Scheme: No fixed rhyme; natural speech pattern and simple rhythm.

 Total Lines: 47 lines.

 Total Stanza: Written as one continuous stanza.

 Meter: Free and flexible; follows natural conversation and observation.

 Tone: Tense, emotional, sympathetic, and reflective.

 Point of View: First-person (poet as a child remembering the event).

Climax: The mother suffers for many hours, and the poet watches the clash between superstition and science.

Resolution: After twenty hours the pain ends, and the mother expresses gratitude that her children were spared.

Summary in One Line: The poem describes the night the poet’s mother was stung by a scorpion and shows the contrast between rural superstition and rational thinking.

 Famous Line: “Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”

 Setting — Time: A rainy night in a rural Indian village

 Setting — Place: A small mud house where neighbours crowd in to help