Analysis of Cry of the newborn
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
I am a newborn and I don’t like it
That is why I really must cry!
I have just been smacked hard
Though I have wronged no one
I have been yanked from peace
To a violence of noise and color
I have been forced to breathe
The impure elements polluted
I have been awakened to hunger
Though not enabled to fend
I have been held helplessly
Teetering on rough hands defenselessly
I have, most importantly, been interrupted
Thoughts most divine cut away surgically
Immersing me into the mental haze of a toddler!!!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
| Scheme | XXXXXAXXAXBBXBA X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001111 11111011 111111 111111 111111 1010011010 111111 001100010 111010110 1101011 1111100 1001111 11101001010 11011011000 110101011010 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 509 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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