Analysis of Was it worth it?
We hear the speakers saying let's swallow the stone like rivers,
We have forgotten the fact that my brother has turned his back on this world.
We hear speakers saying let's swallow a stone even if it's difficult.
You say that we have wiped the tears that flow from our eyes.
You say that we have indicated the narration of our hearts.
We believe in the painful truth,
The fact that my brother has left these sharp guards.
We hear you speak well and you let each other go without a party.
You say that we should not listen to the sorrows and stories of the hearts playing with us.
Sorrow shoots us with arrows of pain,
The pain is eternal, which will never be healed.
Here are the cadamasile cards.
The heads have faces that are covered with sadness and dim hope.
The disappearance of dreams is not questioned, it is sitting in the open like that goat.
Here are hearts heavy with pain.
Here are eyes heavy with pools of tears.
Little by little, he's going to pour out the water...
Was it worth the death of the conspirators?
Little by little, he crept up on her, leading her into the wilderness
Suddenly, he roared at her like a criminal, thrashing her.
Should four deaths have been nailed to him?
Painful pain played with him like a game.
Pain will overwhelm him
The pain was excruciatingly painful.
Wow! Was it worth it?
Hopes and desires have disappeared so suddenly?
Should we have turned into carts to carry this burden on our shoulders?
Was the pain supposed to play with him?
The pain he was in brought me to tears.
I don't even know where the pain hit him,
But I can only see the rain of tears.
Today we have a wound in our hearts.
What we don't know is if and when it is healed.
Today our hearts are grinding more sorrows and sorrows,
By being robbed of the preciousness of our heritage.
Should happiness and desires not be fulfilled?
Was it necessary for the rain of tears to go away with the end of life?
Was it necessary for death to snatch him away with a great thunderbolt?
Wow! We hear you speakers,
You say that we should wipe away the tears and accept the situation as it is.
You say this is a song, mshekelewana.
You say that this is not the case and we ran away.
Wow! Was it worth it?
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Metre | 110101011001110 110100111101111111 111010110011011100 11111101111101 1111110000101101 10100101 01111011111 11111011110101010 1111111010100101011011 101111011 011010111011 11011 011101110110011 001011111011100010111 1111011 111101111 10110110111010 11101100100 1011011110100010100 100111010100100 11111111 101111101 11011 011100010 11111 100101011100 111101111011011010 101011111 011101111 1110110111 1111010111 0111010101 11111101111 01101110110010 1101101110100 110000101101 1110010111110110111 11100111110110110 111110 11111101010010010111 1111011 1111110101101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 2,211 |
Words | 466 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 6, 3, 6, 5, 4, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
This poem is about a death of a loved one in an unexpected manner.
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