Analysis of DESPERATION!



Do you know what desperation is,
Do you know how it looks like,
Let me tell you what it is and how it looks like,
It looks like the face of a carpenter who hasn't sold a piece in days,
It looks like a broke intern with loads of work but not a single pay,
It looks like an open-air market vendor going to work on a rainy day,
It looks like an immigrant in a foreign state with no place to stay,
It looks like a quarry worker who wonders if he'll get through the day safe,
It looks like a kid in the qualifier trials but his knee is too busted to play,
It looks like a farmer who has tilled the land but hasn't seen rain in days,
It looks like a graduate looking for a job but has no one to show him the way,
It looks like  refugees in a crammed up camp hoping to receive some grain,
It looks like a mother who is married to a drunkard and her kids ran away,
It looks like a father who sacrificed everything but at the end it was all in vain,
It looks like that neighbor next door who you don't know hasn’t eaten in days,
Desperation is the faces of the people I see in my poor country every single day.


Scheme ABBCDDDEDCDFDFCD
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 1111111 111111101111 111011010011010101 11101101111110101 11111011010101110101 11111000010111111 111010101101111011 111010010010111111011 111010111011101101 111010010101111111101 11110001111010111 11101011101010001101 11101011010110111101 11111011111111001 010101010101101110100101
Characters 1,103
Words 242
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 53
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 852
Words per stanza (avg) 228

About this poem

This poem was inspired by all the people out there who are going through various hardships while just trying to fulfill their duties, provide for their families or even achieve their goals.

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Written on June 18, 2022

Submitted by Daktari on June 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:13 min read
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Kennedy Mwangi

Gemini. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. Bsc, Biochemistry. more…

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