Analysis of Africa's Breast
Poem : " Africa's Breast "
* Africa's Breast has fallen,
And now oozes sour milk,
The breast of a disvirgined virgin,
Africa a dagger breast....
* Suckled by the large mouths of foreign countries,
With their insatiable lust for mother Africa's milk,
Draining her off her sweet milk, making her breast fall like the London bridge.....
* The breast no longer stands,
Because Suckled dry ,
It now looks like an ironing board,
With nothing left for us to suckle......
* What not we would have had,
If we had Suckled it when it was Standing, Round and bouncy,
But as the breast is our economy ,
Suckled by foreign mouths ,
And we suckling from our mother's fallen breast .....
We suffer.........
Scheme | A XBXA XBX XXXX XCCXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001 1001110 0110101 0110110 1000101 1101111010 11010011101001 10010111001110101 011101 0111 111111001 110111110 111111 11111111101010 11011100100 11101 011011010101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
It talks about the fallen economy of Africa and how the Europeans contributed to the fall of our economy
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