Analysis of Spoon
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
Old sturdy iron spoon
Who in the night reflects the moon
Always beats me why you shine
While all along I lick you! Don’t you get worn?
All the hard foods in the morn
Wallowing through the meat with bone
Obtaining the stuck gravy I use my teeth like horn
Wiping and grinding your surface clean
Occasionally making some cleaves on
Why do you still glow like the noon sun?
Oddly even reflecting my face-front on
Well, still I think age has made you worn
Or why else would you reflect my face upside down?
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | AAXBBXBXCXCBX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 10010101 111111 11011111111 1011001 10010111 0100110111111 100101101 0100010111 111111011 10100101111 111111111 111110111111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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