Analysis of Heartbroken
Afeez Olugbemiga 1972 (Lagos)
I laid in grief on my sofa
My body trembles like a lily flower
I wept like a baby waiting for the quench of hunger
Who will offer me a shoulder to cry on
I wish i could turn back the hands of time
I wish i could wake up into yesterday
Never to realize today
A day of total delusion
We were inseparable before
A relationship which epitomizes every woman dream
But he vanished like thin air
Never to be felt again
I have the reality to bear alone
I have been jilted
I am heart broken
| Scheme | ABBCDEEFGHIJKLF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11011110 1101101010 11101010101110 11101010111 1111110111 1111110110 1011001 01110010 100100001 001010100100101 1110111 1011101 110101101 11110 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 384 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
About this poem
i wrote this poem as a reflection of my past relationship
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