Analysis of Towards a Recognition of Self



I'm mellow with merlot,
Sanguine with red wine...
Cabernet Sauvignon, I'm still feeling fine...
Banange! I hear you,
Reminds me of old,
It's much better warm, why serve it up cold?
But my dear new good friend, you're too pricey by far,
I don't know how many will make me not drive a car...
Dependable Club, you're never a bind,
Drink you all night and I'll still be aligned.
Tequillas? No thank you, I've heard how it plays...
Sambuca, my shot, for the rest of my days.
Tusker, Castle, or anything Lite...
You've never, not once, made me get into a fight.
But there, that's the crux, the point of this yarn,
I have a problem, God damn it, and darn.
'Cos on Whisky, I'm frisky, and feisty, and mad...
T Malt, you bastard, you make me so bad...
You're the main reason my wife is so sad...
My fam, my dearest, they know you're my cad;
My bounder, my worst self, the least I can be,
All laid bare by your tempting 'will be'...
On Nile I'm vile,
My Mum would cry out...
"Stop it, please stop it... she's the only source left of your better-self smile".
So enough of the strong stuff, the mad juice, the cad...
Time to go back, to the husband...the Dad.


Scheme ABBCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJJJKKLMLJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 10111 011011101 1111 01111 1110111111 111111111011 1111101111101 0100111001 1111011101 111111111 1011101111 1101101 110111110101 1110101111 1101011101 111011001001 1111011111 1011011111 1111011111 11011101111 111111011 1111 11111 11111101011111011 101101101101 11111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,148
Words 244
Sentences 22
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 825
Words per stanza (avg) 217

About this poem

Written while estranged from my wife on the 10th anniversary of our meeting, in Uganda, approximately 85 kms apart,,,and having taken inspiratiion from a rather good bottle of Chilean Merlot...

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Written on November 11, 2021

Submitted by jcphotocooke on November 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jonathan Cooke

A traveller, a wnadere, a "Mzungu" in the original context, I'm a photographer and poet living the dream... just not sure if it's my dream more…

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