Analysis of Shining pearl of death
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
It’s the shiny jewel beckoning
In rays of radiant cold embrace
It lies behind you waiting
When the light at the end of the tunnel
Runs out
In the blinding afterglow of light
In the gloom of the dark tunnel
The cold dazzle of the pearl
Lures you into the nether end of
The tunnel
When all your energy is spent
All your hopes dashed
You run out of fortune
To keep the light at the end of
The tunnel
When that moment comes
We instinctively remember
That there is another way out
In the nether end of the tunnel
But if you thought it hard going forward
Try going backwards into the gloom
Fumbling backwards in the dashing despair
When the light at the end of the tunnel
Goes dark
Giving up all you ever hoped for is hard
Even when there is absolutely no hope
Blowing off the flicker of life in your soul
Is no stuff for the fainthearted
Death happens so much every day
That we think it easy
But try to deliberately grasp it
And understand why suicides are
The most courageous people
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | axaBc xbxdB xxxdB xxcb xxxBx xxxx xxxxb x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010100 011100101 1101110 1011011010 11 00101011 00110110 0110101 110101011 010 11110011 1111 111110 11011011 010 11101 10100010 11101011 001011010 1111111010 110100101 10010001001 1011011010 11 10111101111 1011101011 10101011011 11110110 110111001 111110 1110100011 0011101 0101010 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 964 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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