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FWP:
SETS == KYA; MIDPOINTS
MOTIFS == HOME
NAMES
TERMS == THEMEIn the first line, apne can modify either the houses ( apne ghar , 'my houses') or the world ( apne jahaa;N me;N , 'in my world'). The former is the obvious reading, but the latter too is legitimate and quite intriguing. It emphasizes the possibility that the speaker too might merely be playing games.
Does it matter that the 'children' are actually 'boys'? If the verse had said bachcho;N instead of la;Rko;N , it would have been gender-neutral, and the scansion would have been the same. Are boys perhaps considered, for the purposes of this verse, more emblematically creative, and/or more emblematically destructive, than girls? It's just one more thing for the speculatively inclined to speculate about.
Note for grammar fans: In the first line there's no ne , but there's the same verb agreement as if the ne were present. In the second line there's also a ne missing, but the agreement is either with the speaker, or with something like a collective entity consisting of a group of houses. Mir can get by with this sort of thing. After all, he's Mir and we are not.