Analysis of WOMAN

Blessing Olayinka 2003 (Oyo state)



Woman,
Like the beginning of a sweet music,
Your enthrallment causes sick,
Embers that glisten are your eyes,
Your abode sings the stream's tune,
Happy are ballads you croon.

Woman,
An idol you glow,
Yet virtues you show,
Marching steppings of your back sides;
Your unbound freedom in clads of ray,
A game, it's sun rise till setting we can't say.

Woman,
I hear of you oh woman,
Is it heard right no alien enters your clan?
Is it true a warrior you are?
The audacity, is it of the lion's spell?
Or the prowess of the gazelle?

Woman,
Bold black, glow brown, bright fair,
Beautiful, you can't be exchanged for any fare,
Amongst multitudes, elected you are,
Flap your wings o'er the land,
Let sweep of it's bad and bland.

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Scheme Abbxcc Addxee Aaxfgg Ahhfii x
Poetic Form Tetractys  (32%)
Metre 10 1001010110 11101 10110111 1011011 1011011 10 11011 11011 1011111 101100111 01111110111 10 1111110 111111001011 111010011 001001110101 10101001 10 111111 100111011101 011001011 1111001 1111101 101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 749
Words 163
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 1
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

If the Earth is a beautiful vine of pine, it can only be the unseen fingers of "woman", whose seed crafts beauty and reality in a void humanity.

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Written on May 15, 2003

Submitted by blessingolayinka56 on August 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Blessing Olayinka

Blessing Olayinka is a gifted writer of all genres, an artist, a lover of arts and humanity. She's passionate about humanity, Africanism, and Nature which is apparent in most of her published works. She has engaged in writing contests of which she was awarded certificates. She has as well as written articles in published magazines. more…

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