Analysis of Competition

K Khoza 2002 (Middleburg)



You look for poetry pretty in clever rhyme patterns to describe something aforementioned by hearts beating to your expectations
You look for "he was as beautiful as the ocean" and "she built roses in gardens once graveyards"
You don't notice that the ocean has whales in the shape of his problems and shark teeth like the claws he'll one day use to cut me open like the way I cut my roses.
My words bleeding blind like schools of fish chasing tails in the presence of sharks
My fingers dancing like the floating petals of red trauma falling and clinging to the ground as it does pen to paper.
You don't look for poetry
You look for basic in complexities and gardens in graveyards of thorn stems
You look for the blue of the ocean and ignore the way it creates chaos amidst your rhymes.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111001001011010110010111011010 11111110010100111001011 1110101011001111001110111111111010111110 111011111101001011 110101010101110100101011111110 1111100 111100010001001111 11101101000101101100111
Characters 791
Words 151
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 79
Words per line (avg) 18
Letters per stanza (avg) 631
Words per stanza (avg) 145

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A poem about poetry competitions.

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Written on November 08, 2019

Submitted by kimberly.khoza23 on August 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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