Analysis of I was there
Mavis Esaaba Haizel 1989 (Accra)
I was there when the sun gave birth to the day.
I was there was the rainfall guest came visiting.
I was there when the sun smiled not at the rains.
I was there when their conflict invited the leaves to sing.
Then I thought my being there was a luck to learn a song from the singing leaves!
| Scheme | ABCBD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111101 11110111100 11110111101 11111100100111 1111101101110110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 287 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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