Analysis of DESTINY (a collabo)
Once upon a time, great rivers rippled
Through gods, demigods & God
Till a genie & the Great cut its black nose off.
The Sphinx had caught fate's flu:
That pendulum of world power.
Persia fell, Rome fell, then the White House rose.
Thither Israel, India or China?
When shall it swing back to source?
Nostradamus, we beseech thy vision.
"Providence will lay gold at the feet of the Redeemer,
A Pangaean brother seeking fortune in the West.
The Congo will draw on its Amazon blood
To reignite the home of man
And bring fertility back to a womb of old.
Colour, spice and deep culture
Beating drums, its music for the soul.
Sahara will find her roots once more, escaping
The confines of Nile to build upon the stars."
by Chibueze Ngene and Timothy Savage
(first &second stanza respectively)
Scheme | XXXXAXXXX AXXXXAXXX XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010111010 1111 10100111111 011111 11001110 1011110111 1100100110 1111111 010101110 100111101101 01101010001 0101111101 10010111 010100110111 110110 101110101 010110111010 0111110101 111010010 110100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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