Analysis of Home?
Martin Kinyua 1999 (Nyeri)
Oh, our motherland!
The land we call home.
Not proud, but it is our Home .
It is our home we wish we were proud of.
The say patriotism.
But the patriot can't afford a nibble.
Where do I even get the spirit.
The spirit to be patriot.
Worked hard. Paid my taxes .
Where are our taxes?
Stashed in the Caymans?
Panama ,the ‘great’ United Kingdom?
Pandora papers?
Pandora's box?
In the tax havens.
Our tax burdens heavy.
Governance.
Do we need a disenchantment.
Snap from the illusion.
The say the fought for freedom.
Kingdom come. They own hectares.
Did the era of anything goes really end?
Even the old man had to please his cabal
And the mace one pleased his cronies.
‘we must retain the power within our kinsmen. '
The fly-whisk , the ivory baton , the driver , the bottle and the bible .
All different but similar.
Let's wait and judge bible Bill ...
Scheme | XAAX BCDDEEFBXX FXXXG BXXXXGCXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 01111 11111101 11101111011 011000 10100101010 111101010 01011100 111110 111010 10010 100101010 01010 0101 00110 1011010 100 11100010 110010 0101110 101111 10101101101 10011111101 00111110 110101001101 0110100010100100010 11001100 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 881 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 10, 5, 9 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Written on January 26, 2023
Submitted by Banbeast on January 26, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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