Analysis of Touch My Blood



Touch my blood
to feel a pain
of fighting a centuries'
battle

Feel my hands
to experience the
excruciating resistance
of fearlessness against
inequality

Watch my mouth
as it utters
unequivocal truth
against exploitation and
neoliberalism

Capture my red eyes
as they penetrate
structural injustices
and systemic persecution

Escape
from my milieu
as I repel away
racialism and torture

Keep an
audible silence
as I smoke out
loaded questions
supposing to trap
and incarcerate me

Watch
your behavior and
tone when you speak
before you label me
a barbaric communist

Save
your degrading
working conditions
for your children
in your quest for
self enrichment


Scheme XXXX XXAXB XXXCX XXXD XXXX XAXEXB XCXBX XXEDXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 1100100 10 111 101000 0100010 1101 0100 111 1110 01001 01100 1 10111 1110 1000100 0010010 01 1101 110101 100010 11 10010 1111 1010 01011 00101 1 10100 1111 011101 0010100 1 1010 10010 1110 0111 1010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 659
Words 111
Sentences 1
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 5, 6
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by nkululekozon on January 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Nkululeko Zondi

Nkululeko Zondi is an HIV/Aids Educator at the City of Johannesburg Municipality, he was born in Durban and grew up in Soweto, Johannesburg. A former University of Johannesburg student, he holds a BA in Anthropology and Psychology from the University of South Africa. He writes poetry and prose in both isiZulu and English; and has been published in numerous literary platforms and anthologies as well as various South African newspapers. more…

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