Analysis of "A Poem To My Grieving Mother" by Gladys Yaa Mantey
A Poem To My Grieving Mother 1979 (Accra)
A Poem To My Grieving Mother
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All will be well, mother!
Yesterday was bleak
With no sign of hope
No hint of comfort on the horizon
But...Today, even in the near hopelessness
We can still stretch, stretch our hopes
Beyond what the horizon whispers
That there is a brighter tomorrow:
A Tomorrow...where we can look
Back on what Today presented
And then whisper again to ourselves:
"If it had not been for the Lord
Who was on our side..."
Now, look how far Grace has brought us
In this Grace, we shall continue
To Subdue all our fears of what
Tomorrow shall present
But more importantly
We can also now look expectantly into the future...
At the Good things that Tomorrow
Can bring, the exciting moments
That tomorrow can offer...
Letting go of the fears of Yesterday
And facing the future boldly
Because no matter what yesterday brought
It pays to live and have Great Hopes
For the future; for our hopes mother...
might just become our reality!
All will be well, mother.
~~~~
Gladys Yaa Mantey
8, Sept 2021
10:17pm
gladysmantey@yahoo.co.uk
| Scheme | a AbcdefghijklmenopqahrasqtfaqA quvb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111010 1 111110 1011 11111 1111010010 110001100 11111101 011001010 11101001 01111 11101010 0110011001 11111101 111101 11111111 01111010 101110111 01110 110100 111011101010 1011101 11001010 101110 101101110 01001010 011101101 11110111 1010110110 11011010 111110 1 10110 1 11 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,038 |
| Words | 190 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 36 |
| Lines Amount | 36 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 821 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 183 |
About this poem
This poem is inspired by real life events and it is personal because it is a piece of encouragement to my biological mother after the loss of my Dad... Mama, definitely the sun
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Written on September 08, 2021
Submitted by gladysmantey on September 09, 2021
Modified by gladysmantey on September 15, 2021
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