Analysis of Pygmies
Bambutis, nomads blending skin with trees,
In black and grey-tone photos under shade
Of leaf-draped huts are lounging spots, a maze.
I sip green boiled leaves and turn the page.
The jungle of Ituri's veiled in rain
And thick with mushrooms, nuts, bananas, roots
To eat at leisure. Tiny hunters came
To see the lens. I read of women, fruits,
Long net traps, and frightened beasts. Antelope
Hang poisoned (arrows tipped strophanthus) Not God
Alone bears witness. See the wound, the rope
That binds a four-foot man to prey! In bed
I dream of loin-cloths made from pounded bark
And let strophanthus (God!) fill up my dark.
Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIHJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 010111101 1111110101 111110101 01011101 0111010101 1111010101 1101111101 111010110 110101111 0111010101 1101111101 1111111101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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