Analysis of A descent remembered




This thin home breaking and falling away

As we burn hotter in flames of yellow and red

Each one stuck deeper and deeper within

Sometimes we cannot help but devour each other

May be we fill our stomach with the wrongs

You and I, we trade back and forth

But you stand round with griefless eyes

While your regrets consume like wild flames

Yet we let another slow procession weeping

And the burden is too hard to bear

Knee deep in it you grew weary and infamous

Through pains and sorrow

Find yourself lonely against your wish

Like the victims of kwashiokor

You loose weight in the limbs

And make it up in the belly

Until you can no longer stand or speak

But only wait broken and sad

When you were caught for a serious offence

You professed the name of a deity

To re-arm yourself and besiege our psyche

With your greek and bleeding charity

Hoping to heal your angry teethmarks

Like those brave people in grovelling silence

As you were beaten in the streets

Your manhood dangled like a dead lizard

You stay inside invisible pain bleeding

Still feeling the pr*cks in your feet

With unshed tears that linger


Scheme X X X A B X X X C X X X X A X D X X B D D D B X X X C X A
Poetic Form
Metre 1111001001 111100111001 1111001001 0111011010110 11111010101 10111101 1111111 110101111 111010101010 001011111 110111100100 11010 101100111 101011 111001 01110010 0111110111 11011001 1101101001 1010110100 111010011010 111010100 10111101 111100110 11010001 111010110 11010100110 110011011 111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,071
Words 202
Sentences 1
Stanzas 29
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted on October 15, 2013

Modified on April 15, 2023

1:00 min read
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Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi

I am a Nigerian and a financial economist with diverse occupational experiences as a banker,career civil servant,petroleum economist and insurance man.I write poetry and short stories with many public and private appearances.To me poetry is a heritage because I came from a background where great and special events are marked poetically. more…

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