Analysis of Come with me
Come with me,
To a place of beauty, with the call of duty, arise and come with me to a place called Djibouti, a boomerang shaped country in eastern Africa close to somalia and Ethiopia, where men chew leaves like caterpillars, a leave call "khat" what's that? A kind of leaf that makes people dreamy and thin so they are no where close to being fat and this is a real fact.
Come with me,
To south Africa, to see the red blanket people of Xhosa, people who speak with a click, their tongues and teeth perform quite a trick.
Come with me,
To see the lobi's of Burkina Faso in west Africa, they file thier teeth to points, people who are fierce and strong, they believe in "joro" a god, and a deity.
Come with me,
To Ghana, and see the vagla's whose musical tongue can be spoken by beats on an African drum, I call them "people of the talking drum" and when they speak you will think they are singing songs.
Come with me,
To north Africa and see a tribe called "Riff" in Morocco, they are called the Berbers of the atlas mountains, and not too far from Morocco in is the Dogon's of Mali, a people with five days In a week, the Dogon who climbs very high to caves in the cliffs far in the sky, they also love ceremony and dancing.
Come with me,
To Namibia and see the children of the omumborumbonga tree, the Herero people with ladies Serene; thier victorian dresses are fit for a queen, they believed that In the beginning man and woman came from a tree called omumborumbonga.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 10111010111001011110110101011001010011010000100111111000111110111111010011111111101011011 111 11100110110101101011101110101101 111 11011010100110011101111011101101010100100 111 1100101110011110111110011111010101011111111101 111 1110001011100101110110101001111010010111001011100101111011100110011101100010 111 1010001010101101101100110010010111011011000101010110111 |
Characters | 1,477 |
Words | 291 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 96 |
Words per line (avg) | 23 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 281 |
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A poetic journey around Africa and its culture
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