Analysis of Born to fate
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
They say when born to wealthy men,
Born with a silver spoon!
Mine is as much as born,
With a hard wooden spoon!
Moreover into the sea of poverty drown,
And to save me no one!
My mother a painting of pain,
Everyday a groan of trouble.
My father an illusion unknown,
From my first day dawn.
My relatives fake oblivion,
Looking down at us with disdain,
Munene my brother, with fate crown.
Of lack of literacy the moan,
Makena my sister, of luck none,
Born to persevere the nanny pain.
Mine last sister Wanjira, our only hope,
Wed and lost to a bare dusty plain.
Much are the times I hold my chin,
Sifting through dreadful thoughts within.
Mingling into my mind in endeavors vain,
Flipping through my life worries carven.
May fate to me have a good turn,
And to my worries solution dawn!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | ABXBCD EXFGDE CFDEXE HHEAXG X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 110101 111111 101101 010010111001 011111 11001011 10101110 110101001 11111 110010100 10111101 1110111 111100001 1110111 110010101 1110110101 101101101 11011111 10110101 100011100101 10111101 11111011 011100101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 776 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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