Am I a poet?
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
I used to think poetry had a form
A structure on which to adhere to
Little did I know it was a cage
One, seemingly, of my own making
I am stuck to the good old quaint
Of verses wrapped in stanzas
I believed that each line of verse
Ought to be a poem of its own
Then came the modern poet
And his long conversations
The verses became prose
And the stanza disposed
Am I too quaint for modern poetry?
Or jaded to stick to symmetry?
Am I a champion to traditions?
Or a barbarous old pedant
I used to think I am a poet
But now I doubt it’s correct
I found pride in my caged stanza
But I fear I could be the prisoner
© GIDRAF MWANGI
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Submitted by GIDRAF on May 22, 2021
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABX XXXX CDXX EEDA CXXX B |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 130 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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