Analysis of It's Hard
Masrurah Hanafi 2005 (Niger)
Hearing about it makes it seem so easy
Do it I thought I could without much effort, really
Promising to finish even before the due time
Saying it will be done just right and fine
Sat down, I began with a smile on my face
Time passed realising i was still in one place
Tried I did all over from the starting
Thinking the problem must be from the beginning
Yet the same point it stopped at the first
Leading everything all to one whole mess
Sweat, tried I was frustrated
All attaching to one word, exhaustion
Time to finish, it's all over
But done I am not, scattered in one corner
Tears in my eyes, trembling my lips
Then a lump in my throat I could feel
Standing, a chance I had
To admit, it's hard
Scheme | AABCDDEEFGHIJJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011111110 1111110111010 1001101001011 1011111101 11101101111 111111011 1111101010 100101110010 101111101 101011111 111110 1010111010 11101110 11111100110 101110011 101011111 100111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 551 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 138 |
About this poem
Sometimes, doing things for the first time seems so easy even without doing it yet, but when you try to do them, they seem hard. This poem is about doing something for the first time you think is easy and eventually, the opposite you'll realize.
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Written on August 27, 2022
Submitted by Masrurah on August 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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