Analysis of The African Cry
Mama Africa,
Land of my ancestors' birth;
Source of all mankind,
the once Shangri la of mother earth.
Stir up the spirit of the Mau-Mau in vibrato on the bongo.
Your ways are far higher than the crags of the Kilimanjaro.
Let the cry for freedom ride the winds of the Serengeti,
and the walls of segregation fall like confetti.
With careful utterances,
ransack the minds of the pig-headed souls.
Uhuru milele! Milele bure!
Adamantly, gluttons deprive her black gold.
In the villages, griots will invoke a new story.
Follow the way of the lion,
and watch out for the hyenas.
When the rivers are dry in Tanzania,
danger resides in the mud.
Remember; when liberty is threatened in Somalia,
freedom is written in blood.
Blood stained her crevices with love;
black sons’ and black daughters’ blood.
Scheme | ABXB CCDD XXXXD XXAEAEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100 111101 11111 011011101 1101010110010101 111110101100010 10111010110010 001101011010 1101000 101101101 1111 10001001011 0010011010110 10011010 01110010 10101100100 1001001 010110011000100 1011001 11010011 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 778 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 8 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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