Analysis of Expelled

Adjekawen A. Jeremiah 1998 (Delta State, Nigeria)



You must be cold beyond the warmth of my cuddles,
You must be worried beyond the comfort of my fondles,
You must be sad, and here I'm not to make you cheer;
You must be lonely there, and I'm as twice as lonely here.

I can feel our heart, it no longer wag Its tail;
I can feel the trickles of your tears on my cheeks, though you're miles away;
I can see you curled up at a corner, like a widow grieving the ordeal.
I know you miss your soul as much as I miss my body.

How does it feel to be torn away from yourself?
should we merge again, or should I keep roaming all by myself?
How does it feel entrapped beyond the border?
Should I be consoled by your peace, or should I bother?

You were still warm when me you expelled;
They shook your arm, but you were stiff;
I tried to hold on, but I could no longer hold a thing.
I was still watching when your eyes closed forever,
And we can no longer be together.

I was once your better mate,
Now you have your chamber maid,
Forever and always on duty,
Dancing to the silent music.
Those charming eyes of ours in their sockets,
Plead the dancers to eat not out of their pockets.

Where are those beautiful curls,
That once hung jealously over our shoulders, blond,
Our nose that once stood like a fortress to the east,
Our lips, so succulent that every lip would want to kiss;
That fair skin we spent half of our lifetime nursing with pride?
Where is the beauty we so pride?

Your thoughts came to me in my solitary
And up they woke me in the dead of this night.
You inquired if I'd nailed you to my past under the lonely tree
And if I'd replaced your candlestand with a lamp alight.
I wish I really could, this torment;
This obstinate part of me, I lament.

Lying face up, I stare into this quiet nothingness,
Striving to grab on to my thoughts in this dreaded darkness.
My limbs are frozen,
My will is broken,
My eyes won't close,
I can't say no!


Scheme AAXX XXXB CCDD XXXDD XXBXAA AXXAEE BFBFGG AAHHAX
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101111 1111001010111 111101111111 11110101111101 1111011110111 11101011111111101 1111111010101010001 11111111111110 111111101101 11101111110111 11110101010 1110111111110 101111101 11111101 11111111110101 111101111010 0111101010 1111101 1111101 01001110 10101010 11011100110 101011111110 1111001 1111001010101 1011111010101 1011100110011111 11111111011011 11010111 1111101100 01111001111 10101111111100101 01111110101 11110111 1100111101 10111101110100 10111111011010 11110 11110 1111 1111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,893
Words 415
Sentences 18
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 182
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Written on November 10, 2022

Submitted by jerrylov322 on December 29, 2022

Modified by jerrylov322 on January 26, 2023

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Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

Adjekawen Jeremiah Agberia hails from Ughelli south of Delta State, Nigeria. He is currently studying law at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The young poet of Uhrobo origin, who started writing poetry at the age of fifteen, is the firstborn son, amongs three brothers, of a single mother. Works of poetry penned by A.A. Jeremiah (his pen name), are mostly centered around love, romance, politics and betrayal; and, a few, on melancholy and nature. more…

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