Analysis of Blame
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
No one likes to take the blame
Anywhere you are going to lose fame
Not even my old and weak dame
Attending to hens and goats
Everyone looks for a scapegoat
To sail for them in the blame boat
Edging away and far from it
To keep your fame and face right
When a student lacks to finish homework
He or she blames a hand ache
While to throw ball at the PE break
Hurts not the ailing hands they fake
When a farmer’s crop fails to bear
He claims that the rain was unfair
While to his neighbors it’s very fair
How could rain choose whom to favor
Foul play by fate has been the song
Of all the poor people in the world long
For how long will they keep claiming
Always not trying, leaving fate to its doing
This is the time for us to face it
Let’s not claim that its fate
Through hard work we can make it
Lacking to look for blame since no fault
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | AAAX BBCX XDDD EEEX FFGG CXCX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 101110111 11011011 0101101 101101 11110011 10010111 1111011 101011101 1111011 11111011 11010111 10101111 11101101 111101101 11111110 11111101 1101100011 11111110 11101011110 110111111 111111 1111111 101111111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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