Analysis of My Foe

Shannon ialongo 1975 (Chicago)



Time can be obtrusive
It's everywhere
It knows you

The nooks and crannies of your soul
It's in your heart and in your mind
It's at your work and in your eyes
the daily tik-tok of your life
you cannot run, you cannot hide
Time will always find you

Time,
I got my eyes on you
I see you
Please slow down.

Time abhors me, it has no reason
It seems to have no fear
No patience, no awareness
of the things that I hold so dear
Time forsakes my nerves, my heart
and makes it ever so clear
That time will wait for no one
A leader with no peers.

I have an army of love, to fight this thing called Time
The rawkus beast of bastion, the thing we can't unwind
Time owns you like a dictator with the most maniacal of fleats
no wild flights of fury or passion
has ever delivered defeat

We hang our heads and feel the loss
as we give in to this thing called Time
Not knowing freedom is within our reach
as the beast is only in our minds

Perception is our ally
Our armament, our faith
awareness of what we've created
regardless of time's gate

The universe our mother
The body, the child, the slate
our love for each other everlasting
Time in all it's might
 cannot contain


Scheme XXA XBCXXA DAAX EFXFXFEX DBCEX XDXX XXXG XGXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 110 111 01010111 10110011 11110011 01011111 11011101 11111 1 111111 111 111 101111110 111111 1101010 10111111 111111 0111011 1111111 010111 1111011111111 011110011101 11110010101010011 111110110 11001001 111010101 111011111 11010101101 1011100101 01011010 10100101 010111010 010111 0101010 0100101 1011110010 10111 1001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,175
Words 246
Sentences 3
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 4, 8, 5, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 29

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Submitted by Shannon.ialongo on February 04, 2024

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Shannon ialongo

A woman who has lived piety her whole life. And now, approaching 50. I’d like to share and get feedback. more…

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