Analysis of King N---The Artist
He tells me that he always paints the townships as happy scenes,
with happy people.
Born of a South African father
and a Zimbabwean mother
he has known life both inside and outside of the townships.
He tells me that the white people
always feel sad when they enter the townships
and face the reality of the living conditions.
They stare and cry, or express “sorrow” he says,
perhaps “guilt” I think.
He tells me that in turn,
the residents of the townships feel sad.
Not for themselves
but instead for the sad onlookers
as they themselves do not feel the same sorrow.
For this is the only life they’ve ever known.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110101101 11010 110110010 00010010 11111010111010 11110110 1111110010 010101010010 11011011011 01111 111101 0100101011 1101 10110110 11011110110 11101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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