Analysis of Saša Milivojev - NOT AFRAID OF FATE



Again
I am born again
First breath
Pain
Crying
Again I see arrays of colours
Everything has changed
What madness
It’s like a fairy tale
The taste of mother’s milk
I stretch
I grow
Lost in the sounds of a dream
The light plays
At the verge of time
Crawling on scratched knees
When I unknowingly said
Momma
From a distant memory
Walking
Going up and down the stairs
Eager to try it all
Wandering far away in my thoughts
Speaking with nature
Intoxicated by her melodies
And when they yelled at me
Don’t do that and that
Through life I walked
Clairvoyant and blind
To kindergarten
Where I met friends
With bat ears
And there I sat alone
Not vain
But lonesome
Lost
In my own landscapes
And when I burned the colouring books
And discovered the sound of the school flute
When I felt the strength of written words
That heal the darkness
I wrote
I played and sang
Until I fell in love for the first time
And woke up again
Biljana
Marija
Tijana
Hermina
Marina
Dragana
Sladana
Who would think
That I loved so much
And played music for them
First cigarettes and drunkenness
Bad company
I see myself in the fog
When I was a boy
Who could not show emotions
When I created illusions
Of having friends
Behind the darkness
Friends that know my
Secret behind a sigh
They laughed behind my back
When I painted too
In each effort of mine
They saw an unsound mind
Let it be
I fight
Not afraid of fate
And loving my age

Saša Milivojev, 2005.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01 11101 11 1 10 01110111 1011 110 110101 011101 11 11 1001101 011 10111 10111 1101001 10 1010100 10 1010101 101111 100101011 10110 010010100 011111 11101 1111 01001 1100 1111 111 011101 11 110 1 0111 0111011 0010011011 111011101 11010 11 1101 0111011011 01101 1 1 1 100 010 1 1 111 11111 011011 1010100 1100 111001 11101 1111010 11010010 1101 01010 1111 100101 110111 11101 011011 111011 111 11 10111 01011 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 1,353
Words 269
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 73, 1
Lines Amount 74
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 573
Words per stanza (avg) 135
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Modified on March 14, 2023

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Saša Milivojev

Saša Milivojev is a famous writer, poet, journalist columnist and political analyst... One of the most read columnists in Serbia, he is the author of five books, and numerous columns published in various daily newspapers. He is the author of the novel “The Boy from the Yellow House” and of political speeches. His work has been translated into around twenty languages across the world. more…

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