Analysis of Save by Sugarcanes
Rain is brewing;
black clouds hang over the Cockpit Country.
Them rainclouds have a habit of shifting colors like a lizard.
The smell of the pending shower is strong on September’s breath;
the sun take a well-deserved break.
Mango season is long gone,
and bellies are tied up in knots.
Naseberries; they accompanied the mangoes.
Them guys from abroad,
who bought the government land across from the football field,
slaughtered them faithful guava trees.
They build condos,
but poor people can’t eat condos.
How inconsiderate them big-shot government boys are.
We (me, Footloose, and Squealie) device a plan,
when our bellies start telling us something must be done,
but we have to wait ‘til darkness falls,
‘cause bushes have eyes in sunlight.
While everyone sleeps in the bosom of the night,
we put on our birthday suits,
and scale the barbed wire fence at the back of the house.
We are now one with the blinding shadows.
We race carelessly across the open pasture;
burrs biting at our tender flesh,
and mosquitoes humming, maddening music, in our ears.
We tip toe on the dry leaves,
using our hands as shields
to fend off the razor-sharp edges of the cane leaves.
We drop down on all four, bellies on the ground;
we navigate the rows like them American marines – naked and all.
We ate our full,
and Squealie wet the bed that night.
Them sugarcane have a way of making us hyper.
Footloose fell from a Poinciana tree and fractured his hand,
but we stayed energized that fall.
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Metre | 1110 111100110 111010110101010 0110101011111 01101011 1010111 01011101 110100010 11101 1101001011011 10110101 1110 11101110 1111110011 111010101 11010110110111 111111101 1101101 11010010101 1111011 0101101101101 111110101 111000101010 110110101 001010100100101 1111011 1010111 1110101101011 11111110101 11001110100011001 11101 0110111 110101110110 11101101011 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,455 |
Words | 258 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 6, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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