Analysis of Dawn
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
You are so lovely, they say
You always come with a circular
lantern
Though how it looks I can’t say
Because I am always asleep
seeing none!
When you start your wonderful
entry
The birds always dance and sing
with merry
The swallows open their beaks
and twitter
While the doves coo lovelily and
flutter
But I have a qualm with you
I have to say that you are not
fair
Because you always come when all
Children are asleep but a few
And the honor to inaugurate a new day
You always don’t share
When you start a new day
It is only because you hurt the
darkness and it flees
You always lender their leader the moon
Useless as you smite ‘em and slay
Chasing them to hide in closed houses
and in the shadows
Can’t you have mercy???
© GIDRAF MWANGI
| Scheme | ABXAXX XCXCABXB DXEXDAE AXXXAXX C X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (23%) |
| Metre | 1111011 11110100 10 1111111 0111101 101 1111100 10 011101 110 0101011 010 101110 10 1110111 11111111 1 0111111 10101101 001010100011 1111 111011 111001110 10011 111011001 10111101 101110110 0001 11110 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 768 |
| Words | 144 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 7, 7, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 30 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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