Analysis of Serious

Garba Inuwa 1973 (Jigawa)



Get a bit serious
 as men can be mean sometimes
To deal with them you need a lot of courage
To understand me you get a lot of patience

Dear August friend
Know that this year
There will be no celebration
None can be certain
Nor is there any surety

How do you expect me to
Mend ways when you!
Threat my sleep with
Cold handy treatment
Both here and later too

All that I require
Is for this unfaithful fair
Behave in a more subtle
And easy mannerism
And decorum


Scheme XXXX XXAAX BBXXB XXXCC
Poetic Form
Metre 101100 1111101 11111101110 10111101110 1101 1111 1111010 11110 11110100 1110111 1111 1111 11010 110101 11110 1110101 0100110 010100 0010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 444
Words 91
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 23

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Men should be wary

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Submitted by asgarba2 on September 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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