Analysis of Befuddled



I went home yesterday
And heard trees whistling
Which made leaves clutching
unto their dear Mothers, afraid, helpless and
almost drowned themselves into
the ground, in order not to be sent
To the land of their forefathers

I went to the ocean today
Its tide was pleading, pleading
With me with puppy eyes not to
Take its children away
"Do not cut off my lineage please... "

So I looked up to the sky
And was surprised, it was crying like
a little child deprived of food
Wailing, calling on me to help
talk to these monsters in sheep
clothing, so they relieve it of
the poisonous fangs attacking its
Family

But when I look back at my
Homeland, I saw all and sundry
Fighting for liquor, killing and robbing
for it like scavengers on the battlefield
When in reality, they are welcoming
with open arms, slayers that will
wipe them out tomorrow

So tell me
Where do I start from?


Scheme ABBXCXX ABCAX DXXXXXXE DEBXBXX EX
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 01110 11110 10111001100 110101 010101111 1011110 11101001 1111010 11110111 111001 111111001 1111101 010111101 01010111 10101111 1111001 10110111 010010101 100 1111111 1111010 1011010010 1111001010 101011100 1101111 11101 111 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 898
Words 178
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 7, 5, 8, 7, 2
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 32

About this poem

It is about nature

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Written on December 29, 2022

Submitted by deejahragada495 on December 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Khadijah Umar Ragada

Khadijah Umar Ragada is a 20 year old Nigerian writer, poet and budding spoken words artist. Her major hobbies are reading and writting and her writing journey, poetry to be precise in 2021. She has written over a hundred poems some of which have appeared in anthologies. She is a final year student of Biology-Chemistry at Niger state college of education Minna. Some of her works are accessible at her Facebook handle; Khadeejah Umar Ragada. more…

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