Analysis of Living by the past
Clinton Matemba 2002 (Lilongwe)
LIVING BY THE PAST
She is the cheated sheep
The being whose skips a beat
Its beyond reasoning surface
Her conscience desires a move on
But denial knocks with force
The lamb landed innocently
Calling for affection depth
She gave it a warm welcoming
Little did she know that
It was the devil in human coat
She isn’t the one to censure
As the locals utter
“chidamuluma chakuda”
Her body is willing for retouch
But her spirit pulls her aside
It never left completely
Some threads of the story
Got stuck at the back of the head
Right inside the memory pack
They came and go
Honest creatures carrying love
When she tries to dives
Thy past knocks her memories
So don’t point her selfish
Nor hate her heavy thinking
It’s the earlier deceit
That holds her wish to step
She still lives with the past
Scheme | A XBXXX CXDXX EEAFX CCXX XXXX FDBXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 110101 0101101 10110010 010010011 1010111 01101000 1010101 11101100 101111 110100101 1101110 101010 11 01011011 10101001 1101010 111010 11101101 10101001 1101 10101001 11111 1110100 111010 1101010 1010001 110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
It is a poem that talks about how people got stuck by heartbreaks of the last and fails to move on with it
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Written on July 28, 2022
Submitted by Clintonmatemba on July 29, 2022
Modified on March 30, 2023
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