Analysis of Tattered Book
The Drama Queen Poet 1995 (Bulawayo)
~Tattered Book~
Written: 10/12/2020
What am I
But a storybook
With ripped pages
Scribbled upon by careless hands.
They wrote chapters
In my honor
Only to bleed ink
And dog ear corners
My tale was to be marvelous
Filled with adventure
And self discovery
To be told to the dreamers
But my book collects dust
In the shelves of rotting libraries
Untold and unheard of
Just another wasted wood made piece
And oh it was not about
Damsels being rescued
Or chauvinistic princes
Seeking artificial love.
I was made for the believers
The seekers of none cliches
But I lay tattered and forgotten
As a genre this world rejects to display.
Scheme | AB XACX DEXD XEXD XXFX XXCF DXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 10 111 1010 1110 10011101 1110 0110 10111 01110 11111100 11010 010100 1111010 111011 00111010 010011 101010111 0111101 11010 101010 100101 11110010 0101101 111100010 10101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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