Analysis of Life's Unanswered Questions

Phylicia Ebanks 1981 (St. Elizabeth)



Life's Unanswered Questions
-Phylicia Ebanks

I reasoned with life for few seconds,
It didn't answer me.
I talked with life for some minutes,
It did not respond.

I questioned life for hours and it remained muted.
Life can be a mystery  and this cannot be disputed.
It's unpredictable and this cannot be refuted.

Life! Life!
You are a gift .
Please do not drift.
You tend to switch .
I wish you could hitch .

You refuse to answer our questions
You frequently lead to depression.
There is not much suppression when you act without compassion.

Life! Life!
Answer my questions.
Are you here to cause dissatisfaction?
Why are you behaving like a suction?
Life, Life.
I wish you could answer my questions
Life's Unanswered Questions
Life! Life….

I will not give up even though you refuse to answer my questions.
My optimism will surpass your poor rhythm.

I will conquer without an answer.
Life's unanswered questions.


Scheme Ax xxxx bxb Cddee aff CaffCaAC ax xA
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 110 110111110 110101 11111110 11101 1101110010110 111010001101010 1010001101010 11 1101 1111 1111 11111 1011101010 110011010 111101011101010 11 10110 111110010 1110101010 11 111110110 11010 11 11111101101110110 11001011110 111001110 11010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 927
Words 189
Sentences 25
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 3, 5, 3, 8, 2, 2
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Written on July 30, 1983

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Phylicia Ebanks

Phylicia Ebanks is a passionate writer who expresses different emotions in writing and uses poems to appeal to people's imagination . Phylicia is from the Caribbean and enjoys writing in the sun. She finds this a 'fun hobby' . Phylicia's poems are designed to inform, entertain and give hope. Phylicia Ebanks has written over two hundred poems which she enters in speech exhibitions and have gained much publicity in her Caribbean Home town. more…

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