Analysis of Lines
Jabulani Mhlaoli 1998 (Sebokeng)
I'm steadily losing sight
of myself -
I mean
these pages were meant
to give me their ears
and not have me swallowed
between the lines -
If you were to read
between the lines;
surely you'd find me,
stuck between the chaos
of my own thoughts;
shouting for help -:
| Scheme | abcdefGhGijkl |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101 11 11 11001 11111 011110 0101 11011 0101 10111 101010 1111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
This poem, is about an author who is slowly losing himself between his own thoughts, and by all means, through pages, he shouts for help.
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