Analysis of Ignorance, Folly or both



Ignorance, Folly or both
        By Soseipiriala Humble

Looking back
I remember the hard stares,
Deep thoughts, wistful beliefs
That I, my fathers child
Had engraved in my mind
Wishing for Adulthood;
My eyes held images,
Pertaining to beauty and life
My lips spoke of love and light,
My tongue tasted the good,
My heart trembled in ecstasy
at the imagination of freedom

20 years down,
I see life face-to-face
The struggle and hustle
reminds me,
“All that glitters, is truly not gold”
Wide open are my ears
to clear rumblings of the wind
Blurry are the images once held
The fresh air I once breathe
Is all but, dust and soot
I should ask my fault
But I know,
 it’s Ignorance,Folly or both


Scheme AB XXXXCDXXXDEX XXBEXXCXXXXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1001011 1110 101 1010011 111001 111101 101011 10101 111100 01011001 1111101 111001 11100100 100010110 11 111111 010010 011 111011011 110111 11100101 101010011 011111 111101 11111 111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 710
Words 144
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 12, 13
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 179
Words per stanza (avg) 41

About this poem

The poem discusses the wishful thinking of a child who second guesses life’s promises when life itself happens.

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Written on June 30, 2022

Submitted by Inibiyepeniel on September 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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