Analysis of LIFE & PURPOSE
Elizabeth Njeri Waweru 1991 (Naivasha)
What's your purpose?
Ever thought about it?
You were uniquely made,
Could it've been for nothing?
The universe is greatness,
And you're a part of it,
Your input was necessary,
Does it matter to know?
To know why you matter,
Do you matter for you?
Or function for others,
For your happiness or of others?
Have you found it yet?
Or are you still searching?
For the moment that clicks,
The gasp of, this was it.
Are we simply made to live?
If yes, live for who
Ourselves? that can't right,
Social needs are basically basic.
If it's to live,
For ourselves or others,
Then do we live one life?
Or many lives in peaces?
For each person a life,
For another, another life,
The more people you live for,
The more lives you live.
Think of people you've met,
Some you can't recall,
Each with a different version of you,
How we live in other people.
For ourselves it's different,
For each life is a season,
Good seasons and bad,
For choice to live, a life.
I've been at crossroads,
Where I felt the choice,
To live or not to live,
For everytime I chose to live, a life.
It's the big unknown,
A delicate thread to pull,
For if we tasted purpose,
Time'd become more precious.
For life may not be short,
May be we don't live once,
Maybe we'd live more,
If we worried less and lived more.
Scheme | ABXC ABXX XDEE FCXB GDXX GEHA HHIG FXDX XXXH XXGH XXAA XXII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 101011 100101 1111110 010110 010111 111100 111011 111110 111011 110110 111001110 11111 111110 101011 011111 1110111 11111 001111 101110010 1111 1001110 111111 110101 111001 10100101 0110111 01111 111011 1111 1101001011 11101010 10011100 1111010 11001 111101 1111 11101 111111 110111101 10101 0100111 1111010 101110 111111 111111 10111 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,283 |
Words | 298 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
This poem prompts you to think about your purpose. Why are you so important, you just had to exist?
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