Analysis of A Moran no more
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
I am a Maasai Moran
And I will soon be gone
I know tourists love to see me
But I simply have no more run
In days of yore
When I came of age
I would be circumcised
And kill a rite lion
Now I only get circumcised
And God knows for how long
They already robbed my sisters
And I wonder when my time will come
I have been denied my rites
Told there is no right lion to kill
They have even fenced them away
Just to see that am completely damned
In the golden days of old
I was guaranteed a wife
A young sweet circumcised wife
Fully gone through proper rite of passage
Now my wife is called a child
And denied circumcision to make it so
Her rites have been completely mutilated
And she is now exiled in boarding schools
In the old days of grandeur
When the jump was still high
Wealth creation was just a raid away
The old commonly agreed wealth distribution method
Now the raid has been criminalized
And the jump restricted to tourists
Poor and without a 'job'
My only resort is to pose for tourists
What Moran am I then
When I have been robbed of my culture
My wife taken away from me
And I can no longer raid my way to wealth?
Scheme | XXAB XXCB CXXX XXDX XEEX XXFX XXDF CGXG XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 011111 11101111 11101111 0111 11111 11110 010110 1110110 011111 10101110 011011111 1110111 111111011 11101101 111110101 0010111 110101 011101 1011101110 1111101 0010101111 0111010100 011110101 0011101 101111 1010110101 0110001101010 10111100 001010110 100101 11001111110 101111 111111110 11100111 01111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,130 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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