Analysis of What is courage?
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
To approach an armed man
Unarmed
To walk in a dark night
Without torchlight
To walk among male lions
Holding their manes
To raid a bank and come out
Without taking loot
To fail to prepare for test
And expect good grade
To you what is courage
That you claim to manage
To me it’s the confidence
Of having diligence!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
Scheme | XAXAXXXXXXBBCC B |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 101111 01 110011 011 1101110 1011 1101011 01101 1110111 00111 111110 111110 1110100 110100 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 320 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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