Analysis of What Is It You Demand Payment For?
Meshack Bwoyele Keya 1960 (Vihiga)
Sickness strikes unceremoniously.
Bedridden arises seriously.
Treatment is urgently sought.
To the hospital the sick is brought.
Main aim is to seek wellbeing.
And whole to make the ailing being.
What is it you demand payment for?
If my sick succumbs before.
The medics tried their best.
Unique medicine put to test.
Best doctors offered their expertise.
The sick person the best not miss.
They struggled with entegrity.
Yet the sick had the teeth so gritty.
What is it you demand payment for?
If my sick succumbed before.
My sick passed on in the quest.
Though a big Bill on the table rest.
"Pay before the body do release."
The doctors ordered without a tease.
To bury is what I do need.
Your medicine never germinated a seed.
What is it you demand payment for?
If my sick succumbed before.
| Scheme | a a b b c c d d e e f x b a D D e e x f g g D D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101000 100101000 1011001 10100111 1111110 011101010 111101101 1110101 010111 01100111 11010101 01100111 11011 101101110 111101101 1110101 1111001 101110101 101010101 010100101 11011111 11001010001 111101101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 783 |
| Words | 142 |
| Sentences | 24 |
| Stanzas | 24 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
The aim of taking the sick to hospital is to help them get well. If they do not react to the medicine and pass on then what do the doctors demand payment for?
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