Analysis of Leave me unborn



Mummy and daddy, please don’t
Just don’t do it I beg thee
I know it is sweet to you, but,
Just leave me unborn

It is dark and lonesome in here
And the air is suffocating
But I don’t want the glare and stare
Of the big in the sky

The voices in my head bore
And the voices from afar scare
But leave me in silence, golden
In thoughts deep and primal

My legs are small and weak
My hands puny and tiny
But who wants to be a hulk
To blunder in the wild land

The air is stale and scarce
Too little for my diminutive lungs
But I don’t want to breathe
And be a slave to it!

My heart beats…oh...so...slow
Just a dollop of life per beat!
But a rush will leave me in a sweat
With adrenaline running all amok

And I really fear, my parents
The dreaded punishment of life
The sting of the midwife slap
To tear my lungs in a cry!

© GIDRAF MWANGI


Scheme ABAX XXCD XCXE XBXA XXXA EAAX XXXD X
Poetic Form
Metre 1001011 1111111 11111111 11111 11101001 0011100 11110101 101001 0100111 00101011 11101010 011010 111101 1110010 1111101 1100011 011101 1101101001 111111 010111 1111 10101111 101111001 1010010101 01101110 01010011 011011 1111001 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 813
Words 174
Sentences 6
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by GIDRAF on May 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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