Analysis of My Skin
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
They say you cover me up
Aren’t you part of me?
Are you just a lifeless flap?
Can I replace you to buy another one?
Who painted you the color black?
Why did he see it fit for me to be black?
Not white as the Britons
Or red as the Red Indians
When it is very hot, extremely
And I look for the zip to wear you off
I am always left disappointed
To see that I can’t see the zip, as though
The skill to operate you I have no enough
When you are pricked by a sharp object
You always pass over the agony to me
Can’t you take the pricking effect?
It was you who received it not me!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
| Scheme | XAXX BBCC AXXXX DADA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 101111 1110101 1111110101 11010101 11111111111 111010 11101100 111101010 0111011111 1111010 1111110111 01110111101 111110110 11110010011 1110101 111101111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 585 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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