Analysis of YOU
Nana-Aisha Abdulkarim 2000 (Kano)
I see you rising from the fire
you're well acquainted with that heat
you're a diamond they admire
you're made like concrete
you are she, her, female and that queen
you are the beauty in look but don't touch
you are strength embodied in that part called heart
your skin's too thick for the bad man's bite
you're way too bright for the dark to drown that light
they try to keep you down
you're a threat too great
they burn you to ash
but you rise at any rate
you are phoenix
it is their destiny to learn the hard way
that they cannot keep you down
you are empowered, you are woman
Scheme | ABCBDEFGGHIJIKLHM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 11010111 1010101 11101 11101011 1101001111 11101001111 111110111 11111011111 111111 10111 11111 1111101 1110 11110011011 1110111 110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
About this poem
A poem for women, about women, by a woman. It hints at the resillient nature of women and how they rise from the low place of weakness and fragility that society has placed them in.
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Written on February 15, 2022
Submitted by nana_a on October 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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