Analysis of Pointed fingers in the dark



Sorry my view, a tag of cat eats dog situation and vice versa
Who should be what and when?
I stood in wonder and cogitate
While mourning in my search for the truth.

Pupils say, they, they, they teach us lie
And teachers say this made us what we are
Do we learn towards childhood or pupil hood?
Or do we teach towards adulthood or teacher hood?

Pupils cannot and don’t want to attend
So teachers cannot and will not attend
Teachers say pupils are never attentive nor punctual
Pupils say teachers are not punctual, oh! a mirror display response.

Who is in pursued for assistance or help?
Often schools are disrupted
Pupils pointing teachers with their little fingers
Teachers pointing pupils with their huge fingers
Who should be learning?

Who should wait to be found to be helped?
I realized all are sick, But ….


Scheme XXXX XXAA BBXX XXCCX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 10110111110100110 111101 1101000 110011101 101111111 0101111111 1110111101 111101011101 1010011101 1101001101 101101100101100 101101110010100101 11001101011 1011010 101010111010 10101011110 11110 111111111 1101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 798
Words 146
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 2
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted by msehloka on June 19, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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M.J. Sehloka

Born during the middle 1960s at one of rural areas and a farm around Mooketsi area in Limpopo, attended school at welgefontein combined primary school, Maribe L.P school, Sesoai H.P. school and matriculated at Bjatladi Sec School in 1987. Graduated for STD at Modjadji College of Education, taught English at Phiri Kolobe H School (1996 -2003), taught Engish at Letheba H School (2004 - 2014) , taught English and Geography at Mashaha Sec School (2015 - 2020) and taught Geography at Motlalaohle Sec School (2020 to date). more…

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