Analysis of Tale by moonlight
We gathered outside my mother's finest hut,
waiting for our night story,
as everyone is a partaker,
and sleepless as we are,curious to begin,
shabby rooftops roughened by ages,
and moonlight beamed from above,
in circle,we sat in desperation,
tearing our hearts for grand mother
She dangled into our midst,
and draged her walking stick,
in attention we stared in silence,
crickets whistled from around,
Sending us into misery of fear,
when she titled the tale,
''Tortoise in the den of horror''
she butress our fragile hearts
And the harder...the moon shoned brighter,
as scary as we expected the horror,
when we freezed in cold of a new dawn,
and she lastly took us to bedtimes,with her loving,
lullaby,
Cooled dews began to drizzles down,
like a haze in the harmattan,
splashed on the forests,
and the tale touched on with smile,
from granny's best stories.
We shut the wee door from visiting guests,
of un-wanted creeps of disgust,
our quiet home of African tale by moonlight.
Scheme | XAAX XXXB XXXX XXBX BBXXX XXXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110101 10110110 110101 010111101 1011110 011101 0110010 101011110 11001101 010101 001011010 1010101 1010110011 111001 10001110 1110101 0011110 11011010010 111011011 01101111010 10 1101111 1010001 11010 0011111 11110 1101111001 11101101 101011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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