Analysis of IF IT HURTS, THEN IT'S OKAY TO CRY .
MenyaKwanya 1994 (Onyando)
The weak and the strong, cry,
The poor and the rich, cry,
The sick and the dead, cry,
Even the angels, cry.
| Scheme | AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 010011 010011 010011 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 109 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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The poem is all about life, and the things we encounter in life.
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