Analysis of Green Belt
Martin Kinyua 1999 (Nyeri)
How comes she is more celebrated outside her country.
She taught us the environment.
She taught us to take care of the environment.
She taught us how to plant a tree .
She taught us how to take care of the tree .
She taught us how to fight for our rights
How to fight public land-grabbers.
The blood on her locks .
She suffered for our sons to be released
Oh! The beatings. Police brutality at its peak .
She stood for our mothers rights .
The hunger strikes. Just imagine the agony.
The forest, the green spaces in the city.
They fought for that.
At Karura, the hummingbird sings .
| Scheme | ABBAACDEFGCAAHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
| Metre | 1111110011010 11100100 111111100100 11111101 1111111101 1111111101 11110110 01101 11011011101 1010010100111 11110101 010110100100 01001100010 1111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 584 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 17 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Written on January 23, 2023
Submitted by Banbeast on January 23, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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