Analysis of The Rooted Mother Earth
Behold these trees buried in the earth
These trees with feet buried by the forest
Behold some trees lanky like a teacher's cane
Some are short midgets
Some as plump as a pigmy
Some chewable, some for woods
But all takes their place
Without any stopping the others' growth
None taking the others' seats.
Behold these trees dipped deep into the earth's womb
Mother earth moans silently
Her cunt-juice soothing the trees' root
The mating of fertile root and fecund earth
Birthing new fruits and new trees
Behold, these trees can't be decimated
These uncondomed trees when uprooted
Jerkily releases some of its roots to the earth
They sprout again and birth new trees
These trees can't be obliterated
Not by a cluster of companies
The aborted roots crying silently of short dreams
Find succour in the country
Where trees are allowed to breed more with the earth.
Scheme | AXX XBXXXX XBXACDDA CDCX BA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110001 1111101010 01111010101 11110 1111010 11111 11111 0110100101 1100101 01111101011 1011100 01110011 0101101011 1011011 011111100 1111010 10101111101 11010111 11110100 110101100 0010110100111 110010 11101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 8, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
The poem captures the man's imaginative projection of living and none living things!. The poet carefully examines the existential evolutionary principle of life and death, nature and artificial, begining and the end of another begining, time and season etc. The poet uses allusion to reflects on human transitioning from dashed-hope to hopeful situation, a continual accession from death to life, evil to goodness etc.
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