Analysis of grammar of an angry men
Don't speak English with your elders
Living in the village with no pen or a paper
You don't disrespect your elders by smearing grammar all over their faces
You speak to them in Swahili
Acholi or even the language of our ancestors
To protect them from all these foreign men who come to town and to take over our mother's land
Don't ever dare speak to your father in English
For it'll belittle him
Because I don't think you would love to go to war while your father is your general commander
Don't ever speak in vernacular with your English men
For it'll belittle your honor
You are now in America
The stores are filled with pen and papers
There are schools for immigrants and
Because you don't want to be made fun of in a foreign country by a foreign angry men
Scheme | ABXXAX XXB CBXAXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 1000101111010 110111011010110110 11110010 111001011010 101111110111110111010101 110111110010 1100101 011111111111111011100010 11010010011101 110010110 11100100 011111010 11111000 01111111110010101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on August 14, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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