Analysis of My Wrapper

Kubor Dietei Gimeoin 1990 (Port Harcourt)



I have nothing in this world,
Only a polished wrapper hook around my tiny waist

That wrapper is all that is left,
It has sworn to hold on till the end of time

...I fear, I fear the fearful trill of the world
pulling it from both ends

A fearful creak is heard!
 creak, creak again and again

Something is dropping from my waist;
It has gone a bit beyond my belly button

From there comes a boisterous breeze
To make me filth of the world

...my nakedness is at risk
like a stake on Betking...

When your bones are broken
like a broken bridge
All to do is watch in shiver,
Yes, watch in shiver
And wince in uncertainty...

Life, let go of my polished wrapper:
Already, my life has been a hapless hustle

What do you see in me that I do not see about my wretched self?

...time to come,
You will seek me here,
Seek me there,
...everywhere
 like the Frenchies for the Scarlet Pimpernel
And I will not be in the poisoned places you'd been.


Scheme AB XX AX XX BC XA DD CXEEX EF X XXGGFX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011 10010101011101 11011111 11111110111 11110101101 101111 010111 1101001 10110111 111010111010 11101001 1111101 11111 10111 111110 10101 11111010 11010 0100100 111111010 010111101010 11110111111011101 111 11111 111 10 10110101 0111100101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 938
Words 203
Sentences 9
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 2, 1, 6
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 16

About this poem

I wrote this poem due to a fearful thought that inundated my mind. The thought that the world wants that one person who has been everything to me. The "wrapper" symbolises my younger sister, the thought of something bad happening to her propelled me to write this poem.

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Written on January 02, 2022

Submitted by Kudietei on October 11, 2022

Modified by Kudietei on October 11, 2022

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Kubor Dietei Gimeoin

I am the sixth child of seven. I grew up in Lobia, a riverine village where our rivers and lands are degraded. This reality is what made me a poet. I have written several unpublished poems. more…

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