Analysis of It’s not fair!
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
Though you can slip in narrow places from danger
And your fall, when tripped, is always cushioned
It’s not fair still! The shame, I cannot bear
And yes! Mr. Psychiatrist, I do mind
You say I can get away from trouble
When during the night I am hustled by a constable
By claiming that I am a school boy
No! No! I do not want from a concerned lady a toy
I want to be like my smaller brother
Who his motto sky is the limit
And up he shoots day and day taller
Didn’t I hold him in the yester years
While he was a petit?
I mean, don’t you have a machine
For lengthening
It cannot be a genetic defect, I can
Swear to that
What! I am a midget! It must be
A word of your making!
No one and I don’t want to be the first in
My family if the meaning is that!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | AXXX BBCC AXAXD XEXFDEXF X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010110 011111110 1111011101 01100100111 1111101110 11001111010100 110111011 11111110011001 1111111010 111011010 011110110 11110011 111010 11111001 1100 110100101011 111 111010111 011110 11011111010 1100101011 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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