Analysis of They say I am a bad bad wood
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
I am a rare wood
But they say I am a bad wood
I do not bother anyone in the forest
But they say I do not belong
I am accused of being born this way;
Burning from the wrong flames
Setting the wrong woods afire
And making the wrong mycelium connections
They say my heartwood is rotten
And my grain is crooked
They say my growth is weedy
And my pollination an abomination
They accuse my branches of being naked
And my leaves of being serrated
They say my stem pierces the wrong sky
And my roots suck the wrong holes
They say my exhale is pure Carbon dioxide
And that my odor is poisonous
They accuse my tendrils of barking the wrong trees
And my seeds of sprouting in the wrong soil
They say my pollens are unholy
And my pollinators are ungodly
They say my seeds are diseased
And my fruits are bad apples
They say I am a bad bad wood.
| Scheme | AAXX XXXX BCDB CXXX XXXX DDXX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 11111011 11110100010 11111101 1101110111 101011 1001101 010011010 1111110 011110 1111110 0101010010 10111011010 01111010 11111011 0111011 11101111001 011101100 10111110011 0111100011 111101010 0111010 1111101 0111110 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 837 |
| Words | 172 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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