Analysis of Tough Times
Meshack Bwoyele Keya 1960 (Vihiga)
Sometimes the road gets rough
It is bumby and rumbly and tough
You barely make it or reach any joy or laugh
What can you do but fart and cough?
Away you get to straighten joints so stiff.
Life reaches a period hard to pass
It is a time one yearns for a recess
The dollars are so meagre to access
You wonder where finances have gone time to pass
It is time one gets a holiday to possess.
How do you get success? At times it seems hard to access.
Everybody may have abandoned you in a mess.
The measure is too hard to possess
You realize the olden days you do miss.
Away you go on a journey
Yet you are scarce of precious money
Everything seems funny and phoney
It is as if the world has crumbled on our honey.
You come back like a person mad and loony.
Success is too hard to possess.
Scheme | AAXXX BCCBC CCCX DDDDDC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010111 1110101 110111110111 11111101 0111110111 1100100111 1101111001 01011111 110101011111 11111010101 1111011111111 100110101001 010111101 1100101111 01111010 111111010 10110010 11110111011010 11110101010 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
About this poem
Every cloud has a silver lining. Take heart
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