Analysis of Rejected Stone
Osakue Omoera 1973 (Benin City)
Gather those stones
And polish them all but this I forbid you
Do as I instruct
Docility is your portion
How long will I drum this?
Take no cognizance of my mouthing
I’m hamstrung at nourishing you
I don’t know the crime in you
To deserve this grim short-changing
But drawing you nigh I will
And nursing you, I will too
Staking my breath for you
With my meagre mite
For your mien is auspicious
And angst twines me like a passionflower
Does a palm tree
To see your diamond body lay unpolished.
| Scheme | X A B X X C A A C X A A X X D D B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 01011111011 11101 01001110 111111 111001110 11011001 1110101 10111110 1101111 0101111 101111 1111 1111010 0111101 1011 111101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 512 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 17 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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