Analysis of INTUITION GUIDED LIFE
Elizabeth Njeri Waweru 1991 (Naivasha)
Intuition is great,
Until you hit home run,
On each and every little thing,
Then you start to believe it.
I think when you know betrayal,
When it's all you've ever seen,
You can smell it from miles away,
And keep distance from the sidewalk.
Don't get me wrong,
I'm not afraid of a broken heart,
Behind this beautiful smile ,
Is a heart with a million bandages.
I mean, look at this heart,
There's no more room for mending,
There's no room for taking chances,
Another blow might be fatal, or final.
All the pain gave me intuition,
You can't hurt me,
I saw it coming and dodged a bullet,
But now my heart is full of what ifs.
What ifs for moments I didn't cease,
For the chances I didn't take,
Because I played it all out,
And I didn't win in that movie.
I don't know what's worse,
Living it and paying the price for it,
Or not living it at all to avoid the pain,
I'll never know, because I never lived it.
Scheme | XABC DXXX XEXF EBFD AGXX XXXG XCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011 011111 110100101 1111011 11111010 1111101 11111101 0110101 1111 110110101 0111001 1011010100 111111 1111110 11111010 01011110110 10111010 1111 1111001010 111111111 111101101 10101101 0111111 011010110 11111 1010100111 111011110101 11010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
What is better, to live and learn or avoid any road with a possibility of hurt?
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