Analysis of Wilting times
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
The ground is hard as stone
And the glaring of the sun
Falls with loathe from sky
Forming alliance with dry land
Crack! Ouch! It hurts much
When the ground cracks
Leaving my swollen roots
To be scorched to death
The leaves are grey misty
As the green splendor left
As fate knocked on my door
And no choice, ‘welcome!’
My once blooming flowers
De-attached themselves
When the ordeal strikes
Never join a sinking ship
My dry feeble stem
Holding its flail networks
Sways to and fro in wind
Making me scared to hell
Oh! My! Everything of mine
Is just but irreparable
Nothing suits me in world
Except…help!! ‘Droop!!!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
| Metre | 011111 0010101 11111 10010111 11111 1011 101101 11111 011110 101101 111111 01110 111010 10101 10011 1010101 11101 10111 110101 101111 111011 11101000 101101 0111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 613 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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