Analysis of Thoughts Resigned



My thoughts race, in a maze of excess pace.
Never settle in one place.
Running like a gazelle fleeing from the chase of a lioness fighting to feed her distressed pride.

Halt I tell them. Yes, they oblige for a moment.
Unsettled they leap at the sight of the dirty pavements.
A taxi conductor's voice I hear and they race yet they obliged to settle.

A high pitched sound he raises with tender anticipation that I will take the taxi.
"Ogenda" he screams. My thoughts race again.

Not in pain but plain packaging I observe a well wrapped paper in a polythene bag.
On it are the crossed marks of a teacher's red pen markings of a student’s wrong mathematics answer.

My thoughts race. How did a student's exam paper end up as a wrapper of oily pancakes and fried cassava? Is it my exam paper my thoughts ask?

My thoughts race. As my stomach turns and churns. Was it the cornflakes breakfast I ate? Am late I guess.

Let me get onto the taxi and reach school before
the bell rings and brings me ding dong sing and sting trouble with the gatekeeper.
My thoughts race.

Why not resign them, for unsettled they keep leaping, peeping, rocking back and forth like a chair I once saw in a pack.
Back and forth they keep racing forever.
I resign my thoughts.


Scheme AAX XXX XX XB X X XBA XBX
Poetic Form
Metre 111001111 1010011 1010011010110110110011 111111011010 01011101101010 01011110111101110 011111011000101111010 11111101 10111100101011100011 111011101011101010101010 11111010011011101011010111110110111 1111110101110110111111 1111001001101 01101111101101010 111 11011101011101010101101111001 1011110010 10111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,261
Words 256
Sentences 25
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 54
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 29

About this poem

Adventure within a students thoughts. Depicting inner reflections and imagination.

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Written on May 11, 2021

Submitted by Richardmwebesa707 on February 16, 2023

Modified on April 28, 2023

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