Analysis of Two paths

Faeeda 2007 (Cape town)



When i close my eyes
I see two paths
My life could take
In a span of 8 years

In the first
Im alone
Walking down a street
Of thugs

Im inlove with a drug addict
I work from Mondays to Sundays
While he openly
Gawks at plenty of females

Im a smoker in this one
And I've failed my grades
I work at a garage
And i have no friends

All the fake
Showed their true colours
And all the real
Left when they realised i wasnt worth it

In the second path
Im married
To a man who treats me right
To a man who thinks of me as bright as the starlight

He buys me chocolates
On a Tuesday morning
And brings me roses
On a friday afternoon

Most of my friends have left
By this time
They couldn't appreciate me the way i deserved
So i was confident enough to cut them off

And the ones who stayed
When i needed them the most
Took care of me
As i took care of them when they needed me

I dont know which path
I will take
Or whether itll be good
Or bad

But i hope i find the happiness
That ive craved for
Whenever,
And wherever i end up in


Scheme AXBX XXXX XXCX XXXX BAXX DXEE XXXX XXXX XXCC DBXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1111 1111 00111 001 101 10101 11 1110101 1111011 11100 111011 1010011 01111 111001 01111 101 1111 0101 11111111 00101 110 1011111 101111111101 11110 101010 01110 101001 111111 111 110010101101 111100011111 00111 1110101 1111 11111111101 11111 111 110111 11 111110100 1111 010 00101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,026
Words 230
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

This poem is about two different paths my life could take.

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Written on November 10, 2023

Submitted by mosesfaeeda on November 10, 2023

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