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
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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Submitted by stephenabah240 on November 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Abah stephen

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