Analysis of A Bizarre Naked Dance



In Ongata Rongai's club, a memory song weaves,
A tale of Newton Karish and daring thieves,
Late '90s, New Year's Eve, a lively show,
A sold-out crowd, in high spirits, they'd go.

Karish, unlike modern stars who mime,
With a live band and dancers, he'd shine.
From 10 pm till dawn's early light,
He'd entertain with all his might.

Dancers lost in rhythms, the crowd in delight,
As midnight approached, spirits took flight,
But then, at 2 am, a sudden hush fell,
Speakers went mute, a foreboding spell.

A gang, six or seven, with weapons untamed,
Machetes, clubs, and rusty guns they aimed,
"KILA MTU LALA CHINI!" the leader's decree,
Patrons, sobered, herded, as fear grew free.

"EVERYONE, GET NAKED!" his next demand did ring,
So, they stripped down to nothing, a peculiar, shocking thing,
As the gang searched pockets, taking what they could find,
The crowd cowered on the cold floor, fear etched in their mind.

The gang's leader, bold with humor in tow,
Ordered the speakers to once again glow,
Onstage, Karish and his band stood bare,
Naked and vulnerable, in the chilling air.

"START SINGING!" the gang leader's absurd command,
Karish, his voice trembling, had to withstand,
"Muthoni Kifagio," the song he must perform,
A satirical piece, to ridicule and inform.

Adding humor to the tale's unique lore,
The gang chose a dancer, a man to explore,
An old, pot-bellied, short figure in a cowboy hat,
Dancing comically for the gang; imagine that!

The heist was brief, mere minutes had passed,
And the gang disappeared, leaving the patrons aghast,
Naked and frantic, like a colonial scramble they raced,
For clothes to wear, in haste, they embraced.

Karish and his band, furthest from the pile of clothes,
Landed mismatched attire, confusion arose,
Karish in a spaghetti top, a scent of perfume so strong,
His wife at home, his troubles, he'd explain ere long.

No offense, but imagine the scene so bizarre,
As the pot-bellied dancer, in a cowboy hat, old by far,
Wore lady's biker short, oh what a sight,
In an unexpected place, a humorous plight.

To this day, Karish worries and ponders,
How the dancer, in his unusual wonders,
Explained to satisfaction, to his wife's delight,
Why he wore lady's biker short that night.


Scheme AABB XXCC CCDD CXEE FFGG BBHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN XXOO PPCC QQCC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 0111010011 0111010101 111110101 0111011011 10110111 101101011 11111101 1011111 10101001001 11011011 111101011 101100101 0111101101 011010111 10110101001 1010101111 10110110111 11111100010101 101110101111 011101111011 0110111001 1001011011 1101111 100100000101 11001100101 1111001101 11011101 001001110001 1010101011 01101001101 111101100011 1010001010101 011111011 001011001001 100101001001011 111101101 10111010111 100101001001 10001010110111 111111010111 101101001101 10110100011111 1101011101 01010101001 111110010 10100101010 01101011101 1111010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 2,231
Words 440
Sentences 16
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by Aloo-Denish on September 16, 2023

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