Analysis of Bat

GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)



Ruler of the night sky
A dimmer black, in silhouette
A streaking through the sky
From horizon to horizon apart

Many are the moments
I hold my breath in bates
Waiting you to smash into a light pole
Only to see you swerve like a hit ball

Whenever I see your wings
I always wonder what it is
That makes you queer and odd
Coz I see no feathers, or am I blind?

They say you are blind
But when you perch, you get a hold
When you meet a building
You don’t go into but fly along

Maybe to some extent they are right
Because my ears you once hit
Or are they so small to see?
Oh! Your face bat, I would like to see!

© GIDRAF MWANGI


Scheme AXAX XXXX XXXB BXXX XXCC X
Poetic Form
Metre 101011 0101001 010101 1010101001 101010 111101 1011101011 1011111011 0101111 1110111 111101 1111101111 11111 11111101 111010 111011101 101101111 0111111 1111111 111111111 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 603
Words 130
Sentences 5
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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