Analysis of They lied to me!
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
They said that I should go to school
And there I would learn and be wise
But I soon found out that the education system
Was only 10% education and 90% system
A place where little girls and boys
Are brainwashed into blindly following the system
They said that if I get good grades
I could be anything I wanted when I grow up
Nobody told me that anything had boundaries
Boundaries of tribe, color and economic worth
That anything included nothing
And that the sky was too low for a limit
They said I should go to church and be good
So that all I prayed for, the good God would give
Nobody told me the church is a business
And I must pay for the privilege
That God helped those who have already helped themselves
And goddamned to those unlucky poor souls
They said that I shouldn't worry about my loneliness
That there was someone out there for everyone
Nobody told me it might take forever to find her
That she might have been born at a different time than me
That she might be in China while I am stuck in Africa
That she might be a he, and I might not have the feel
Nobody told me!
Scheme | XXAAXA XXXXXX XXBXXX BXXCXX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 01111011 111111001010 110010010 01110101 110110100010 11111111 111101101111 1111101100 100111000101 11001010 01011111010 1111111011 11111101111 111011010 01111010 111111010101 011101011 11111010011100 111111110 111111010110 11111110100111 111101011110100 1111010111101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,086 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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