Analysis of Tremor in Serengeti
Benson Chukwueke 1971 (Owerri)
Suddenly, the earth began to tremble
As the lighting thunderbolts
The pounding boots of the rebel soldiers
Like hooves of surging wildebeest
Marching across Mara river
Marching into the heart of our town
They have come to conscript our young men
They have come to rape the virgins
They have come to desecrate our land
And our heart jump into our hands
As we go under fire of the armed robbers
The banging at the next door
Crashed like a shattered china
And our heart jump into our hands
Even as the sky weep heavy tears
We could still hear the rebels coarse laughter
We could hear the scream, the mix crow
Of the woman who is wildly raped
And the whimper of her husband
The man who has died alive
Scheme | xaabcx xabA axxA acxbbx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1000101110 10101 0101101010 111101 10011010 1001011101 111111011 11111010 1111001101 0101101101 111101010110 0101011 1101010 0101101101 101011101 1111010110 11101011 101011101 00101010 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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