Analysis of Menace of the village
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
He was the menace of the village
His name was a taboo
He was rumored to have broken from a cage
Down in the museum of Waterloo
And in the struggle of the iron bars,
That had failed to budge.
He was pricked, and the anger
Was sparked, must be true
Unlike his nature, he is full of malice
Trumpeting vents off his disgust
But that is always not enough vice
He tramples smashes and casts
Away the village plantations to shreds
He follows not the village laws
Which ensure justice
He was a picture of distress
Drawn with violence, painted with blood
He brought in poverty and hunger with force
He has no feelings and he follows no bid
A single blow of his gives survival no chance
Many kick the bucket and others nurse each a wound
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | ABXBXAXB CXXXXXC XXXXXX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 111001 11101110101 100010110 0001010101 11111 1110010 11111 01110111110 10011101 11111011 1101001 010101011 11010101 10110 11010101 111001011 11010001011 11110011011 010111101011 1010100101101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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