Analysis of The Iroko Has Fallen
Meshack Bwoyele Keya 1960 (Vihiga)
Mourning reverbrated in the once quiet village.
The big Iroko tree had fallen in its pillage.
Wails, sobs and grief rended the air.
The situation was pathetic and full of despair.
Praises were sang about this great patriarch.
Every mourner had words to praise the dead to patch.
"God, has taken his own," cried the Christian.
"He was a great man," he added on the yarn.
"We loved him but God loved him better.
Missing him to haunt us be the matter."
He wailed on with tears rolling down the cheaks.
He intensified his saddened shrieks.
"His enemies got him at long last.
Now the Iroko has fallen so fast."
These words were spoken by the spiritualist.
He saw somebody's hand in the death list.
"The dibias charm worked its miracles.
The Iroko succumbed to the machinations of the oracles."
The physician had his own diagnosis on the pad.
"Covid-19 has swallowed another victim in the ward.
This pandemic will swallow the whole world.
We should sought the treatment like mad."
Yet the Iroko had miraculously fallen.
There was no way to bring life to the men.
Scheme | XXAAXX BXCCDD EEFFDD GXXGBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011010 01111100110 1101101 0010101001101 1001011110 1001011110111 1110111010 11011110101 111111110 1011111010 1111110101 10101101 110011111 10111011 110101010000 111010011 01111100 01011001010100 0010111010101 111001010001 1010110011 11101011 10110100010 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
About this poem
There are so many faces to death.
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