Analysis of Sloth
Thina Maxathi 1999 (Cape Town)
Kick your blankets, get up! rain has come.
Grab your seeds head to garden.
Gather oxen, go plough, go back to our indigenous ways.
Reminisce archaic time, untie-knot with sloth!
Fertile East soil wave at black men
Black men! black men! come get your riches.
Black men! black men! we lived prior to technology.
Reminisce archaic time, untie-knot with sloth!
Spill bottle liquor, collect wood for fire, cook sorghum beer.
Throw carpets away, head to the kraal get cow dung.
What is google? black men! black men go consult elders.
Reminisce archaic time, untie-knot with sloth!
Sleep and sloth are tongue and saliva.
Only Jeff Bezos can hit the hay.
| Scheme | xxxA xxxA xxxA xx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011111 1111110 1010111111001001 01010101111 10111111 111111110 1111111010100 01010101111 110100111101101 110011101111 1110111110110 01010101111 101110010 10111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 649 |
| Words | 125 |
| Sentences | 20 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Native people need to go back to their old ways of living.
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