The Length of Time
Akinsola Odubona. 1999 (Lagos)
If I could die without the thought of life
Engulfed in time's waste, the soul's peril
I would not ask for other joy than respiratory arrest.
With shining of Sun's ray and sound of birds.
I sit on perpetually troubled day by day.
Watching grass grow and wildflowers range.
From Blue to Yellow and Red to Gray.
In natural sequence as they wane away.
I could bait the wait, but for the hurt.
Of this incessant tick of time which chides my ear.
But I dear not sit with loins ungrit.
And staff unlifted, for death stands, neigh.
I must be up and doing, each second.
The sepulchre gives time for rest when we lay in it.
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Submitted on April 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBXCXCC XXBAXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
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