Analysis of Mango
Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)
I know where the mangos grow
Down beside the sea,
Heavy, ripe and sticky skinned,
Hanging on a tree;
Shading out the coastline
Down Mombasa way,
Every time I taste one
In my mind I say...
“Oh yes this is mango,
The fragrance and the taste,
Nothing I have ever known
Can ever take it's place.”
I hear again the ocean,
The ceaseless rushing roar,
Clear and vivid images
Of that eastern shore.
They say it was the Portuguese
Who brought them to the land,
So they'd have this delicious fruit
At outposts they command.
And further down the trade routes
A sorry tale to tell
The mangos show where slavers went
Because they grew so well.
I know where the mangos grow
Down beside the sea,
Heavy, ripe and sticky skinned,
Hanging on a tree.
You have to suck a mango,
You really shouldn't bite it,
Or you'll get strings between you teeth
And you will not like it!
This poem is published in "One for the Pot" on Amazon.com
Scheme | ABCBxded axxxefxf xgxgxhxh ABCBaixi x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 10101 1010101 10101 10101 10101 1001111 01111 111110 010001 1011101 110111 1101010 010101 1010100 11101 1111010 111101 11110101 11101 0101011 010111 011111 011111 111011 10101 1010101 10101 1111010 1101011 11110111 011111 1101100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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